The eldest grandson Wuji stepped out and said to Cen Wenwen with an unkind face: "Then according to what Lord Cen said, because His Majesty has done the post of Shangshu Ling, no one in my Datang can be a Shangshu Ling anymore?" If anyone does it, it is a violation of His Majesty's taboo, and he has no heaven and no conscience? ”

Cen Wenwen replied with a firm attitude: "Yes, I have and can only have one Shangshu Ling in the Tang Dynasty, that is, His Royal Highness the former King of Qin, and His Majesty the current Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Others who try to be the position of Shangshu Ling, that is, the chaotic ministers and thieves of my Datang, who have no eyes and have the heart of disobedience, and everyone in my Datang will be punished. ”

As he spoke, Cen Wenwen once again viciously glanced at Gao Shilian, the official secretary who was sitting on the ground weakly, to show that Gao Shilian was the kind of rebellious minister and thief who tried to be the secretary of Shangshu's order, who had no heaven in his eyes and had a heart of disobedience, and no one in the world had to pity him, and everyone would be punished.

The eldest grandson Wuji showed a sly smile and said loudly: "According to what Cen Wenwen said to Lord Cen, I don't want Shang Shuling in the Tang Dynasty?" After Shangshu Province, there will be no supreme official - Shangshu Ling? All the big and small matters of the six ministries have to be handled by the six ministries separately, and there is no need to report to His Majesty anymore? ”

Cen Wenwen immediately heard the trap in Changsun Wuji's words, and he said coldly to Changsun Wuji: "Lord Changsun, don't frame me. In the affairs of the world, it is natural for His Majesty to decide, since ancient times, not to mention the six departments of my Tang Dynasty, which should naturally be decided by His Majesty. However, it is true that my Datang can no longer set up Shangshu Order, and Shangshu Province cannot have only one highest official - Shangshu Order. ”

As he spoke, Cen Wenwen took out a recital from his sleeve, bowed to Li Shimin and said: "The minister thinks that my position as the Tang Dynasty Shangshu Ling is too heavy and the authority is too high, except for Your Majesty, anyone else will pose a huge threat to His Majesty the Tang Emperor and the Tang Dynasty." The minister suggested that the order of the Emperor should be a vacant office and should only be owned by His Majesty alone. Shangshu Province set up the left servant from the Sanpin Shangshu and the right servant from the Sanpin Shangshu, thinking that it would divide power, contain each other, and check and balance. Shangshu's left servant shoots and Shangshu's right servant shoots jointly oversee the six affairs. ”

Cen Wenwen's proposal made the Tang Emperor Li Shimin's eyes light up suddenly. Li Shimin was sat up by Shang Shuling, and no one knew Shang Shuling's terrifying energy better than him.

I think that at the beginning, Emperor Taishang joined forces with Jiancheng and Yuanji, and he had a military advantage, although he was at a disadvantage administratively, he still had a large number of officials following him, in addition to Gao Shilian being the secretary of the ministry and in charge of personnel, the main reason was because he was the Shangshu order of the Tang Dynasty, which was the Shangshu order in charge of administration.

There are policies, there are countermeasures, Yang Feng Yin violates, secretly Chen Cang, and arranges some of his henchmen to enter the key departments, which is what he often does in Shang Shuling, the Emperor Taishang and Jiancheng join forces, and they have no way to do anything about themselves, so they can only let themselves do whatever they want.

Shang Shuling's authority is indeed too great, Cen Wenwen suggested dividing it, and setting up the left and right servants from the Sanpin Shangshu, which is a good idea. It not only divided the power, but also lowered the grade of Shangshu Province, and also let the left and right servants of Shangshu Province monitor each other, contain each other, and form a check and balance.

Originally, the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty had a six-ministry system, and the highest governors of the three provinces: Zhongshu Province, Shangshu Province, and Menxia Province were all high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, and the Shangshu Orders of Shangshu Province had the heaviest authority and the highest actual status. However, according to Cen Wenwen's proposal, Shangshu's left servant shot and Shangshu's right servant shot are indeed from the third grade, and the grade is half a level lower than the Zhongshu Order of Zhongshu Province and the servant of Menxia Province. According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, from the left and right servants of the Shangshu of the three products to the Zhongshu Provincial Zhongshu Order and the Provincial Servant of the Door of the Third Grade, it is necessary to salute, and it is also necessary to do things in accordance with the Zhongshu Order and the words of the servant. In this way, it avoids the situation that Shang Shuling is one person in charge and dominates the situation, forming a situation in which Shangshu's left and right servants clamp each other, and Shangshu Ling, Zhongshu Ling, and Shizhong clamp and restrain each other.

Li Shimin looked at Cen Wenwen with interest, he couldn't have imagined that Cen Wenwen would have such talent. A twist and turn actually changed the pattern of the three provinces of Datang and solved the big problem that he had been headache for. He couldn't help but look at Li Xuan again, he didn't expect that Cen Wenwen, whom Li Xuan recommended for him many times, really had the talent of Zai Fu.

And Li Xuan's heart admired Cen Wenwen. What does it mean to be able to do things? That's what you call being able to do things. can not only spoil the matter of Gao Shilian and the eldest grandson Wuji, but also bring the matter back, and put forward the most perfect solution, which makes His Majesty the Tang Emperor satisfied, and makes the civil and military officials have nothing to say, so they can only secretly admire. Masters, this is the real masters.

Li Xuan understood that Cen Wenwen perfectly solved a problem that Li Shimin had a headache, and this was also a headache for all emperors - the problem of monarchy and relative power. The emperor is the Son of Heaven, and the prime minister is under one person and above tens of thousands of people. The two get along day and night, and it is impossible to be without friction. Since Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries and established feudal rule, the monarchy and the prime minister have been in a game, the monarch is strong, the minister is weak, the minister is weak, this has become a main line of history, take the Qin Emperor and Han Wu as an example, both of them are a generation of strong lords, they can control the court situation, and the ministers dare not squeak, but as soon as they died, it was their turn to have their sons, Qin II Hu Hai, and Liu Fuling, Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty, did not have the ability to do so, Hu Hai was overhead by Prime Minister Zhao Gao, and was finally killed; The government of Liu Fuling's dynasty was also controlled by Prime Minister Huo Guang, and it was the turn of Emperor Wu of Han's grandson, Liu He, the king of Changyi, who was directly abolished by Huo Guang. In the emperor's opinion, it must be the best when the monarch is strong and the ministers are weak, but there are many times when the courtiers are strong, and the emperor is regarded as a puppet, and it is not uncommon for him to regify, coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and even steal the world. In Li Xuan's memory, in the Ming Dynasty, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was also troubled by this problem, and in the end he did a very thorough thing, directly canceling the prime minister and no longer setting up the prime minister; The Qing Dynasty followed the practice of the Ming Dynasty, and it was more thorough, treating all ministers as slaves, and scholars were no exception, all kneeling to listen to the edict. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the monarchy reached its peak, and there was no prime minister, and everyone seemed to be happy, but in fact, since the Ming Dynasty, feudal society has begun to decline and decline. If you talk about the best time in history when the emperor and the prime minister got along, it was Li Shimin's Zhenguan Dynasty. The emperor and the prime minister supported each other, checked and balanced each other, complemented each other, and gained something from each other. And the person who perfectly solved the contradiction between monarchy and power was this young Cen Wenwen.