Li Kezai also believes what Song Ji said, this is a big change involving the entire country, and the people who enter the situation are by no means limited to the political hall and the national court. But he didn't expect others to follow so quickly.

In the early morning of March 3, Li Kezai was in the carriage bound for Weiyang Palace, staring at a few newspapers in his hand in a daze. After he met with Song Ji yesterday, he dispelled the idea of going to his father immediately, and thought about the overall situation overnight, preparing to take his own step.

He is obviously lagging behind, "Zhongliu", "Yuexiu Times", "Jiangnan Daily", "Zhengqi", the most influential newspapers in the country, all mentioned a question in the first edition of the editorial: What about the prime minister!?

Song was sick and resigned in January, and the emperor kept it according to the usual practice, but the illness was there, and he could only accept the resignation, and that day was ...... On 3 February, which is exactly one month today, it is no wonder that the newspapers no longer heed the ban of the Dengwen Yuan on not talking about the prime minister's affairs, and they have violated the order in a group to make a law and not hold the public accountable.

According to the "Press Control Order", I am afraid that the Dengwen Yuan will hold high the killing rod and severely punish the industry, but it is only a fine. In this newspaper, what Li Kezai saw was not an article, but the doubts and worries of thousands of Chinese people in the streets and alleys, in the high-rise halls and humble rooms. It is precisely with such confidence that the newspapers dare to act collectively to break through the ban of the Dengwen Academy.

Li Kezai sighed: "It's definitely not a matter of a few hundred people. ”

"Eighteen years after the return of the northerners, why do you still need to train the constitution?"

"Overseas smuggling is rampant, and the court doesn't care about it?"

"Why don't you pay attention to the Luzon household registration and eliminate the ambitious people of the wolf?"

The editorial is a number of government problems in the country. is no longer talking about the vacancy of the prime minister, but about the power and responsibility of the prime minister, and Lei Zhenzi of "Yuexiu Times" personally caught the knife. Engrave the sentence "There is a big war outside, there is strife inside, and Zai is quite iron-fisted!" ”

Li Kezai's emotion is even more mixed. It seems that everyone is unwilling or afraid to work for their father, but from another point of view, it is not unwilling. It has been 43 years since the founding of Yinghua, and the return of the national government has also been said for 43 years, and now there is finally a voice of noise, and the father may be relieved, but as the next emperor, he does not feel lost.

"Father is at the Hongde Temple?"

Li Kezai pounced in Weiyang Palace. The palace gate guards told him where he went, turned to Hongde Temple, walked into the ancestral hall, walked past a life-size stone carving, and Li Kezai's heart became more and more dignified.

In the depths of the ancestral hall, an old man was wiping a statue with a rag, looking at the elegant and dusty figure. Li Kezai's heart was sour, it was the image of Concubine Xiao Niangniang. When she died, the whole country mourned, and they were all invited to the ancestral hall to respect, and the father set up a statue in the Hongde Temple, showing his medical skills and benevolent heart. But many people know that this is the real body of "Pan Niangniang".

The old man wiped the statue with a gentle motion, as if what he was touching was not cold stone, but real flesh and blood. Seeing that his face was even more full of love and remembrance, Li Kezai couldn't bear to disturb, so he waited quietly aside.

This old man in ordinary clothes, who at first glance looks like a teacher, is none other than the Emperor of the British Pilgrimage, who has reigned for forty-three years, and is sixty-seven years old this year.

"Han Yi, don't seal the shrine, the sincerity of the people who come in the morning is the heaviest, you can't break their hearts. Don't worry, will the sons and daughters outside the shrine be negligent in their duties?"

Li Shi commanded, and a thin old man beside him who looked older than him nodded. Yu Hanyi, after staying in Beihai and Tangnu Wulianghai for ten years, returned to Li Xian's side again, but relieved himself of all his duties, became an army general, the founding marquis, and then transferred to the imperial court, becoming Li Xi's personal follower.

"Kezai, didn't you come last night?"

Li Xi had also seen Li Kezai earlier, but after wiping the front of the statue, he spoke lightly.

Li Kezai hurriedly said: "The matter is big, Erchen went to consult Song Xiang, and wanted to have his own plans first." ”

Li Xi nodded: "Let's talk about ......"

Li Kezai said as Li Xi wiped it, his expression still focused on the statue.

The position of prime minister has been vacant for more than a month, and there are a lot of problems involved. First of all, the issue of the prime minister's power and responsibility, the two houses formed a party, each looking for a candidate, but they all avoided Cheng Yingde, Yang Junli and Xiang Shanzhi, what does this mean? It shows that the two houses are dissatisfied with the situation of entanglement with the political affairs hall in the past and hope to open up a new situation.

The people are eager for the upper echelons of the country to take the initiative in governance, and even if they don't lead the people away, they can't continue to pull back. In many affairs, there are many disputes, and people of insight have seen the crux of the problem, and the human rights and responsibilities of those who are in charge are not big enough, and the power of restraint is too strong.

Of course, the emperor is willing, or the prince can take on more responsibility, which can be regarded as a temporary solution, but the wisdom of the people has been opened, at least the wisdom of the scholars has been opened, and they all hope to take on more responsibilities, and it is best not to work for the prince or the emperor, and even demarcate the boundary between imperial power and relative power.

The two houses will form a party, a republican union and a coalition will appear, pushing their favorite candidates to compete, how to fight for the benefit and eliminate the harm, and lay the foundation for a century-old system, this is only the surface of the change.

Extending to a country, from the perspective of political foundation, the broader layer of changes is still in the situation of party contention, what kind of system should it be, and only after establishing the system of party contention can we talk about the election of the prime minister. From the top of politics, that is, the "regime", how should the power and responsibility of the prime minister change, and this up and down movement is the inner layer of the change.

From this political peak, to the imperial power, how should the emperor's power and responsibilities change? That's the heart of the change.

"Father, if this link is completed, my Yinghua's national government will be completely established. It's just that this link is too wide, and the sons are afraid of making things happen in a hurry, and the legacy will be endless. ”

Li Kezai made clear his understanding of this change, and finally expressed his hidden worries.

"There will be a legacy, but it is also a small trouble, if the change is not successful, the harm will be even greater."

After wiping the corners of the statue's skirt, Li Xi straightened up, wiped the sweat on his forehead, looked at the back of the statue, and said this in his mouth, but the old scene of more than forty years ago flashed in his heart. The tall and handsome man, with a heart of hatred for the sky, came to himself. At that time, I still relied on the ability of a traverser. Take the villagers to earn wealth step by step.

Traverser...... I have almost forgotten this identity, I have lived in this world for nearly fifty years, and more than twenty years in another plane have been dimly shattered. Sometimes I even feel like I'm a native of this plane. That life was just a dream. Whether the person sees the butterfly in the dream, or the butterfly sees the person in the dream, this trance is getting deeper and deeper.

"It's just you. Only you are constantly reminding me of where I came from and what my dreams were. ”

Li Shi rubbed the shoulders of the statue, his eyes were misty, as if this back would turn around the next moment, showing a beautiful face, and smiled at himself. The pupils of deep Hong cast endless admiration and love.

The Tianzhu crown was in hand, but it couldn't add half of his supreme glory in the hearts of the people. Twenty-five years ago, the Northern Expedition was restored, and his achievements had reached their peak. Since then, he has been a little lost.

There is no such thing as the emperors of the old world, who have built a lot of construction and made great achievements, and there is no wine pond meat forest. Singing every night. But he was indeed lost, and he completely regarded himself as the emperor of this era, so he followed the tide of history and followed the Yinghua country to roll forward, and no longer had the heart to lead the tide and chase the waves.

He felt he had done enough. Therefore, he indulged in comfort and pleasure, indulged in the name of the emperor, wanted to carve the empire in his hand more perfectly, and wanted to feel the empire he had created more truly. He has been personally in charge of the army, watching every battle, and he has always kept an eye on diplomacy, pushing Yinghua to fight for more interests in the overall situation of the east and west.

He has gradually become accustomed to looking at the current situation in this era, accustomed to relying on the power in his hands to play chess, and forgot that he should be an outsider, and his purpose should be to play chess. In the past ten years, is it the prime minister, the political hall and the two houses that are dragging down state affairs? No, it's he, the emperor, who is dragging him down.

Although Yinghua has established the righteousness of heaven and earth, the political pattern is still the system of alternating the old and the new, and it is becoming less and less suitable for the ever-expanding national situation. How to reconcile the contradictions between the north and the south, how to divide the profits between the local and central governments, how to balance the local and overseas countries, and how to involve more strata in a situation where lions and tigers compete with each other, so that this competition can benefit the country and the people, and let this competition not break the bottom line, this is no longer something that can be won by the emperor, by his heart, and by the strength of one person.

He was slow to take this step, and his aura of authority was so dazzling that the blame did not fall on him, and it was the prime minister and the crown prince who came next. That's how the prime minister's curse came, and Li Kezai left a "deaf prince" between the government and the opposition, which is also how it came.

The lovers have grown old, first Baoyin, and then Xiao Fumei, Xiao Fumei's departure made him finally wake up, and the previous meeting with Yinzhen made him feel more refreshed. He finally regained his consciousness as a traverser, but in addition to this consciousness, it was inevitably wrapped in a layer of heavy time and reluctance to stay with his wives for decades.

"Are you still worried that when you became an emperor, you became an ornament?"

Retracting his slightly agitated heart, Li Xi asked Li Kezai. He is now three generations in the same house, and the eldest grandson of the emperor, that is, Li Kezai's eldest son Li Mingqi, is thirteen years old. Li Kezai, the old prince, can be cautious in the throne for more than ten years, not too deeply involved in politics, and he must have extraordinary ambition to do it.

Just because he has high expectations for Li Kezai, Li Xian speaks very directly, and he wants to kneel down and express his intentions directly to Li Kezai. is not kneeling to the emperor, but kneeling to the father, the Yinghua national political system can continue to this day, holding up the foundation of today's changes, it is their father and son who work together, Li Kezai certainly does not want to be misunderstood by his father.

"The admonition of the father is the ancestral training of the descendants of the Li family! On the day when the wisdom of the people is opened, the position of the emperor of my Li family will become an ornament, and even abdicate to the emperor, on that day, my Li family should retire successfully, and the tide of the times cannot be hindered......"

But my father also said that the current situation is not a sound of noise, but the internal situation of the world and the east and west of the world and the situation of the country, and we must see clearly whether it is the trace of chaos and the general trend. When it is time for our Li family to stand in front of the country, we will never back down! ”

According to his father's words, the son believes that within a hundred years, the British Emperor will never be an ornament! What the retainers are worried about is, where will the boundaries of imperial power be? Will it be because of this unbounded growth and decline that it will mess up people's hearts! ”

Li Xian nodded with satisfaction, worthy of Duan Guoshi and his teachings, Li Kezai's political insight is enough to rank among the sages in the country, of course, this is also the background that the study of heavenly dao in the country is becoming more and more prosperous. This kind of understanding, the princes and grandchildren of the Li family have more or less it, and it is even in line with the way of the martial artists of this world. And there is a deeper feeling and grasp.

"You asked the essence of the question, where should the boundaries of imperial power be?"

Li Xi patted Li Kezai's shoulder to soothe him, and then reluctantly looked at the image of Xiao Fumei. beckoned Yu Hanyi to go deeper, where there was also a statue of Baoyin. She had a high reputation in the hearts of the Mongolian people, and died because of mediating the dispute between Tibetan and Mongolian religion and customs. It is also very respected by the Chinese people, and her statue has also been left in this Hongde Temple.

Stepping on the mirror-like terrazzo marble floor of the ancestral hall, Li Shi's question also seemed to knock directly on Li Kezai's heart: "Before talking about imperial power, let's talk about the governance of the country." Who do you think governs the world? ”

Without waiting for Li Kezai to answer, Li Xian said in a deep voice: "My Yinghua righteousness is the agreement of the monarch and the people, and the co-governance is shared, which contains a thing that can only be approached forever." An ideal that cannot be true. If this inference is removed, the essence of the righteousness, as Wen Yanbo said in the Song Dynasty, the emperor does not rule the world with the people, but only with the scholars. ”

Li Kezai wanted to speak and stopped. Isn't that the language of the old world? Could it be that the father still wants to revisit the path of the Legalist?

Of course, this is from the perspective of the system of government. How will the emperor change? Who the scholar is and how he came to be, this is another matter. In my opinion, if you look at the emperor and the scholar together. As far as the essence of the state system is concerned, the difference between the old world and the present world is only that the power of the emperor has a boundary, and the scholars can be divided into scholars and doctors, and the scholars and doctors are more closely connected with the ordinary people, not only those who have been examined, some who have been elected, but also those who rely on public opinion to participate in governance. The righteousness of scholars and scholars came from public opinion, not from academic, hereditary, or imperial favors. ”

Hearing this, Li Kezai breathed a sigh of relief and listened quietly.

Mencius said that the people are the foundation, and the will of the people is the foundation of the general righteousness of the national system. But does public opinion have no boundaries? Naturally not, the boundary of public opinion is very clear, that is, the interests of the people, and the interests of others. What to do is up to the doctor. ”

Li Shi's topic is a little far away: "Public opinion is not absolutely correct, public opinion is easy to be instigated, induced, and bewitched, and public opinion is even more restless, especially when some people think that their own benefits are taken away by others, or there should be more benefits." Throughout the ages, the theory of the great harmony that everyone gets for nothing is one thing, and the theory of nature that the weak are born to feed the blood of the strong is one side, and public opinion has always oscillated between these two sides, and it is very easy to go to extremes because of the opposition between the two sides. Under the righteousness of heaven and earth, everyone is more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, public opinion will become more and more boiling, and this swing will become more and more violent. ”

"Scholars should not only rule the world, but also reconcile people's hearts. What's the best way to reconcile? It's what the teacher always mentions, 'everyone becomes a scholar'. ”

Li Shi said with emotion: "Running education on a large scale and opening up the wisdom of the people is just the foundation. The school can only let people know that in order to become a wise man, they also need to be virtuous, virtuous, and thoughtful, so 'everyone becomes a scholar' can only be an ideal that can always be approached and cannot be true. ”

"In the world, even after a hundred years, or even three hundred years, the people and the people still cannot coincide. We can expect that in 100 years, 10 out of 100 people will become scholars, but after 300 years, there will be no 20 out of 100 people. But one soldier leads the hearts of ten people, and one hundred people and ten soldiers are enough to stabilize the world and protect the righteousness, so ......"

Li Xian stopped and looked at Li Kezai: "Don't be blinded by public opinion, what you should look at is two points, one is the scholar, and the other is whether the people's path to becoming a scholar is smooth and broad." ”

Li Kezai groaned, and suddenly became enlightened, his father's words did not give specific opinions on the current topic, at first it seemed to be mysterious and mysterious, but these words described the general environment in which the "last ring" was located, and the essence was clearly explained.

"If you want to draw the boundary of imperial power, you must first draw the boundary of governing power clearly, and now the change in the election of the prime minister is to do this, and the system of party struggle is only a means."

Li Shi still explained, and the topic also fell to practice.

Li Kezai's eyes lit up: "Erchen is thinking, as mentioned in the newspaper, the universal election of the prime minister, it seems that the boundary of governing power has been too wide, hiding dirt and dirt, and the roots are not true." And if the party struggle is only in the two houses and the political hall, the boundary of governance is too small to be stable. Therefore...... The election of the prime minister should be more inward, but the party struggle should be more outward! ”

Li Xian said: "This is just the details, pay attention to the needs of the birth, should change from time to time." After delineating this governing power, and then dividing the imperial power, it will be clear at a glance......"

As he spoke, he came to the statue of Concubine Shu Baoyin, the carver was obviously a master, even if there was no color, just a simple bluestone figure, and a bright and lively grassland daughter was vividly displayed in front of the viewer. Holding the felt hat in her hand, the girl who was about to get on the horse was full of laughter, which made Li Xian's heart shake suddenly, and his words stopped suddenly.

At this time, there were many people in the ancestral hall, watching the statues one by one, they walked beside Li Xian and his son and Yu Hanyi, and they didn't notice that they were staring at the statue of Concubine Shu and were silent The old man was the Emperor of the Holy Dao, and the graceful middle-aged man who stood respectfully on the side was the current prince.

"Kezai, four years, four years later, this burden should be carried by you, how to demarcate the imperial power, you can do it yourself."

Li Xian muttered in a low voice, and Li Kezai's eyes were round in disbelief.

"No matter how you draw it, you remember that the national constitution is the root of the emperor's authority, and the grand court is the root of the emperor's responsibility."

Li Xian was blind to Li Kezai's shock, and after saying this, he took the rag from Yu Hanyi's hand and began to wipe Baoyin's statue. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )