The Emperor was finally silent, but the sword he swung out seemed to be in the wrong direction. 1――

At the beginning of December, the emperor issued an edict on the cabinet change to the government hall and the two houses, mentioning three things.

The first is the restructuring of the government hall, and the three provinces, the cabinet, the planning department and the privy council into the government hall.

Half a year ago, the princes of the political hall were afraid that they wanted to congratulate the emperor on his words, which was the last step for the emperor to fulfill his return to the cabinet.

The planning department holds the financial power and returns the financial power to the cabinet, and the political affairs hall can truly hold the authority of a country. Although the authority of the Privy Council was much weaker at this time than in the early years, it was only responsible for the general affairs of military personnel, armaments, and military industry, and the deployment and operations were all in charge of the commander-in-chief, but it could be regarded as holding the lower half of the military power. Let's not talk about the general office, now the importance of foreign affairs is almost in line with internal affairs.

The cabinet that has these powers is the real cabinet, and the one who leads the cabinet is the real prime minister.

But in the current situation, the emperor threw out such a rule, and his intentions are very interesting. Many old people who still have the impression of the emperor's manipulation of the white-clothed mountain people back then are muttering, this is the emperor's strategy of "cauldron and fierce fire" again. The disputes are messy, indicating that all parties have been put on the stage, so change the pot to a bigger pot, increase the firepower, and stew the pot.

In the case of the white-clothed mountain people, the emperor used the foundation of the study of heaven and man as the pot, and now, it seems that he wants to use the new system of the temple as the pot.

The second is more specific, saying that Shoufu Tangyou has been sick, and the country cannot be without appearance for a day. After the reform of the political affairs hall, a new chief assistant is needed to take up the heavy responsibility and lead a country to continue to move forward. The emperor did not intend to directly appoint candidates, so the government hall and the two courts, and even all people of insight jointly discussed the system of selecting meritocracy and elected a new chief assistant. In the future, this system will also be followed, and a country's chief assistant will be appointed and dismissed.

Those who understood it were suddenly amazed, it turned out that this was what the emperor meant. Let the government hall become a real cabinet, and then through the two houses and public opinion, we will elect the first assistant that everyone is satisfied with. A new chief assistant will resolve these current disputes. Since Shousuke was elected by everyone, his decision should also be recognized by most people.

The third is a cliché at a cursory glance, but there is a mystery when you look closely. The emperor emphasized that the country of Yinghua is a country of all peoples. Accept all rivers as one sea, all parties should not try to be alone, but should be in the same boat, even if they fight, it is for standing, not for breaking. Even if it is a battle, it is a battle for the crown. It must be done in a grand and undisguised manner.

In connection with the second matter, both the government and the opposition have understood that this position cannot be decided by the government hall and the bureaucrats themselves, and the two houses must have a part in it, nor can it be a black box, and public opinion and even the people must see the process.

No comments were made on the current situation. Whatever point of view is raised, it is just talking about the cabinet reform, but one way is revealed. All sides breathed a sigh of relief.

In Hanlin Academy, Tang Sunho slapped his thigh: "The time has come!" ”

Longmen Academy, Li Fangying said with emotion: "This is the instrument of the mean." ”

Hangzhou Bay, on the Ningsui number, Li Kezai suddenly realized, "My father's intentions are really good, since my father, the emperor of Great Britain only needs to concentrate on military affairs and set up a big treasurer to control national politics." ”

Li Kezai's comprehension is still too shallow, how can his father's intentions be so rough. It is even more unlikely that the future emperor of Great Britain will be just a warrior, but the direction is roughly the same.

Compared with intentions, the emperor's plan is extremely delicate, when the political hall and the east and west courts each came up with almost the same restructuring plan, everyone knew that this was the emperor's early plan, or the emperor saw that he could do something. A bureau that takes advantage of the situation. In order to involve all parties in the controversy, the interests and views are put on the table, and then the system is reformed according to the trend, so that all parties can reach an ideal consensus.

Those who entrusted the emperor in the government hall and the eastern and western courts all admired and said to their colleagues: "This is the ...... of His Majesty's twenty years of thinking"...,

This is really not the slightest falsehood, and even more than 20 years, Li Xi was thinking about how to build a temple during the Tianwangfu era, how the emperor, the cabinet, the parliament and the court should share power and how to interact.

Of course, Li Xi is well aware of the power structure of modern constitutional monarchies, but in his view, this thing cannot be copied and rigid, and must meet actual needs. Even the steps and timing of construction must be subordinated to reality, and cannot be treated as child's play on a blank sheet of paper.

At this time, it was actually a little early to throw it out, but as he said to Zhu Yuyou, time is running out. If we do not set out to restore the homeland of China, the hearts of the people of the north and the south will be further separated. In the same way, if we do not start to push the state to complete the construction of the upper power structure, all parties will grow on their own, and it will be more time-consuming and laborious to integrate them.

On the other hand, the disputes and current problems of all parties are projected on how to elect the first assistant, so that there is a platform for the struggle between the party in the court, the government and the people, and the government, which is also required by the times, and cannot be regarded as pulling out the seedlings to help grow.

Now that the emperor has a plan, then everyone won't fight, right?

Originally, all parties thought so, but if you take a closer look at the emperor's plan, it is a shelf, and there are opinions from all parties on what materials to fill.

Further, this is just a platform, the platform is set up, how to sing on it, the emperor doesn't care, anyway, it just doesn't collapse the platform. For example, who should be the first assistant?

On December 19, the 19th year of the Holy Dao, in the central hall of the Weiyang Palace, which had just been completed, the unofficial "First Anglo-Chinese National Temple Conference" was held. Attending the meeting were the government hall, the court, the planning department, the Privy Council, and all the chambers of the two houses, more than 30 newspapers as observers, and the secretary of the central court and the inner court as representatives of the emperor.

Looking at the layout of this central hall, the participants all said in their hearts, the emperor seems to have built this hall for this purpose.

Low in the middle and high on all sides, it is the scalloped synagogue that is emerging in the middle of the country. The fan blades are divided into several petals, which can accommodate thousands of people to sit, and the long platform stretches out from the spine of the fan, embedded in the weight of the fan blades, which is a loudspeaker and is where the speaker of the meeting presiding over the meeting stands.

There are two floors behind the megaphone, one floor is occupied by Dali Temple, and the first floor at the rear is a half-hall structure, and the dragon chair on the Danqi is empty.

At this time, most of the participants did not know that the future change of power in the Anglo-Chinese state was here, and the change system was being established by today's meeting.

According to the framework of the cabinet reform given by the emperor, the previous three-province system was abolished, and all ministries were opened up and placed under the jurisdiction of the cabinet. Previously, the governors of the three provinces were concurrently headed by ministers and ministers, and served as cabinet officials. After the Ji Si and the Privy Council were merged into the Political Affairs Hall, the Ji Si Envoy concurrently received the Zhongshu Zuocheng, and the Privy Council Governor was changed to the Privy Councillor, and concurrently received the Zhongshu Youcheng. The left servant of the law department and the secretary of the department shoots, the secretary of the department and the right servant of the secretary and the secretary of the book, and there is only one of the servants under the door, which is led by the imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspectorate.

under this framework. The cabinet consisted of the first assistant and six ministers, and the official title of the first assistant was changed to "prime minister". In fact, the emperor was originally going to be called "Prime Minister", but everyone felt that the people had long been accustomed to mixing this title with Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang and others, and it was easy to have bad associations......

In the name of justice, the real power of the prime minister has been greatly strengthened, and the prime minister has the right to appoint and dismiss officials from various ministries and courts under the cabinet. At the same time, it has the power to impeach and evaluate the other four ministers. In addition, there is also the right to approve the yellow of the national government, and the prime minister's instructions are the final resolution of the ministry.

Another major change is the prime minister's term of office, which is a five-year term and a maximum of two terms. This point was greatly contradicted in the political affairs hall, but the Eastern and Western Houses and public opinion welcomed it. Under pressure, the government hall no longer disagreed.

To be honest, this prime minister has a lot of authority. It is still too far from the prime minister that Li Xi wants, for example, the other five cabinet ministers are still his chosen candidates, and if he wants, he can completely use the cabinet ministers to set up the prime minister. It's not that he's in a power lover, it's a transition. ..., although the secretary and the Privy Council are included in the political hall, they still need him to be supervised remotely, and they can't let go of the prime minister at once. The legal department, which is equivalent to the Supreme Procuratorate, is in charge of new affairs and needs to be taken care of at all times. On the other hand, the Ministry of Officials and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which are in charge of the advancement and promotion of bureaucrats, are holding back the prime minister and preventing him from having the opportunity to form a "prime minister's party." After all, the prime minister already has the power to appoint and dismiss officials from other ministries and courts, and if he is allowed to hold the right to elect middle and lower ranks and magistrates, the power will be terrifying. Of course, it was not he who restrained the prime minister from these two departments, which was also left to the two houses.

Due to the adjustment of the political affairs hall, Li Shi's power as emperor also increased or decreased. The main thing is to reduce, the economy and armaments and even the personnel power of the political hall have been given to the political hall, and on the added side, he took the overseas colonial affairs department that was originally under the Zhongshu Province to the Zhongting Court and changed it to the Prison Colonization Yuan, which is not very much, but it accurately summarizes the ministry of this department, which is to control colonial affairs. Colonial affairs are closely related to the diplomatic affairs under the jurisdiction of the General Office, plus military and legal affairs, Li Xi will still hold it firmly in his hands.

Everyone has no opinion on the reform plan of the political hall, anyway, it is the emperor who will give up power. And how to elect the prime minister, and even how to impeach the prime minister, this has become the focus of everyone's attention. Compared with who the prime minister will ultimately be, how to elect the prime minister, who has the right to elect and be elected as the prime minister, and even who has the right to decide how to elect the prime minister, this is more worthy of concern from all parties.

The first thing to be resolved at the meeting on 19 December was this issue, and the sensitive question of who had the right to decide how to elect the prime minister was what the government council considered to be a "battle of victory and defeat." However, this question has been answered early, and the emperor, the government hall and the two houses have the right to decide......

The two houses were actually involved, and the princes of the political hall should have been greatly frustrated and even indignant, but the government hall was restructured, and the prime minister and the cabinet took power.

The reason why the government affairs hall is so easy to let go is that only ministers and ministers can be elected as prime ministers.

As for how to elect the prime minister, the election plan announced by Li Can, the general envoy of the Central Court, at the meeting of the Central Pole Hall is very different from the previous original plan, and the political hall and the two courts put forward a lot of opinions, and they discussed back and forth for more than ten days before reaching a consensus.

Of course, the form is also very important, the new system is based on the prime minister's term of office system, and the prime minister's election or council is held every five years, and there is a pre-meeting before the meeting to discuss whether to change the election plan. There are more than 200 people in the two houses combined, and only 20 or 30 people in the government hall have the right to vote. Even if this case is an establishment case and requires three-quarters of the people to approve it before the election plan can be changed, if the two houses are in a group, the political affairs hall can only stare dryly and watch the two houses change the selection procedures.

This meeting is not in such danger, everyone has discussed it under the table, and the plan is very simple, the emperor nominates, if there is only one person, two-thirds of the people agree to approve it. If there are two people who run for office, whoever gets a majority will pass, but if they don't have a majority, the emperor will nominate another person. When the emperor's three nominations are abolished, then the person who nominates the ministry and the court officials is changed to the emperor's consent or veto, if the emperor vetoes again...... Everyone can't think about it so much for the time being, but at this time, I'm afraid that the emperor has turned his face with the two courts and directly dissolved the two courts. At this time, everyone naturally didn't understand what the emperor's intention was to let Dali Temple sit on the stage.

After the election plan was passed, it turned to the things that the newspaper people are most concerned about, and it is also the thing that the people are most concerned about, who will be the first prime minister?

At this time, the concern is more related to the current chaos, and the prime minister is shouldering the heavy responsibility of resolving this chaos.

The emperor mentioned the name, there is no dark horse, it is Xue Xue, which is also the heart of the people. ..., according to the selection plan, the candidate needs to announce the policy in public, which is also in accordance with the spirit of the examination method, and also answer the questions of the candidate.

Xue Xue grimaced and talked about his principles and goals on stage. The principle is that the two houses can impeach him, supervise state affairs, check and fill in gaps, and exercise legal power, but they must put the country first, demand common ground while reserving differences, and understand the difficulty of coordinating all parties because of the greatness of a country and the importance of political affairs. And the goal, of course, is to enrich the people and strengthen the country, and so on......

Although there has been communication in the audience for a long time, there are still court officials and even ministers and officials who have raised questions on many matters, especially the Hexi tragedy and the Wang Blind case, Xue Xue's answer is the same as the previous Hubei envoy Hang Shijun's answer: "Do things with reality."

Although there are still doubts in my heart, but in view of the emperor's concession of power, and at the same time improve the name of the court, and even decide the prime minister, so not many people dare to disobey the emperor's will in the first prime minister election, Xue Xue's vote rate is as high as 88%, and the rest are all abstaining, and this is also the highest vote rate among the previous prime ministers of Yinghua, even if the prime minister who led the country to win the war in the future, it has never been exceeded.

"Xue Xiang, can you withstand five years ......"

After being elected, Chen Wance, who was appointed by the emperor and transferred to the imperial history of the capital, "congratulated" Xue Xue so much, but the latter did not regard it as sarcasm, but sighed deeply sympatheticly.

"In the future, there will be a lion and tiger struggle on this stage, and the party struggle in the political hall will be put on this stage, yes, the party struggle is gradually not a bureaucratic dispute, but a struggle of all people who are interested in state affairs, with this platform, the future will be fought without breaking."

Some of the newspaper people were buzzing and talking, excited to be able to witness the changes in the country's major policies and the birth of a country's prime minister, and some racked their brains to conceive articles, trying to write about today's grand event. And in this group of people, there is a middle-aged man with deep eyes and a wise man, explaining to a young man with a handsome face and a calm expression.

Li Kezai continued to ask Tang Sunho: "I already roughly understand Xue Xue's attitude, but his subsequent handling of this chaos will definitely make many people dissatisfied, and I am afraid that he, the first prime minister, will become the prime minister with the shortest tenure." ”

Tang Sunho chuckled: "Then let many people stand on his side first, now he can't just find supporters in the court, he must find supporters in the two houses." ”

Li Kezai nodded slowly, and finally understood that the two parties of the lion and tiger were going to open up the court and the two courts.

He smiled: "It seems that Xue Xue has to pull up a lion party first." ”

Tang Sunho also smiled: "If you don't do it well, then you are a scapegoat." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )