Finding that Li Yongji was silent again, this time Shen Shiming no longer waited, but immediately asked: "Your Majesty, how do you think Weichen should deal with this matter?" ”

"Do what you have to do." Li Yongji said lightly, "Since the person has been arrested, let's follow the procedure, let the court go to the trial, and wait for the result of the trial, what should I do, and don't interfere too much during this period." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, Weichen understands." Shen Shiming replied carefully.

In fact, Li Yongji's answer was also expected by Shen Shiming, at least one of the expectations.

When Li Yongji established his political power, he made a four-way approach, which was obviously autocratic, but he wanted to play the separation of powers, and separate the executive, judicial, and legislative powers.

Well, it's okay to play this, after all, these three separations of powers are all under the emperor, at least it can be said that it is something like the Prussian constitutionalism, but Li Yongji may have been influenced by another time and space, and he made a snake to create an internal affairs office, which made the empire's political situation completely chaotic and became a situation of separation of powers.

Of course, Li Yongji also had his own considerations at the beginning, after all, let's not talk about the many advantages of the dictatorship of a certain party in another time and space, let's talk about the actual situation, because Li Yongji has a lot of secrets, especially his golden finger issue, it is true that another organization should be set up outside the state that is not monitored, so the establishment of the internal affairs government is understandable.

Originally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was regarded by Li Yongji as a private group like a monopoly consortium, but when this Ministry of Internal Affairs was tied to state power, especially with China, where feudal remnants were strong, its nature completely changed.

It can be said that it is easy to establish a system, but it is difficult to maintain, especially in the process of development, a country will automatically develop according to its own needs, so today. Li Yongji's original policy of separation of powers under the emperor's dictatorship has long been full of holes.

If Li Yongji was still in China, he might feel it more obviously, but he had already gone abroad, and he stayed abroad for more than two years at once, and only came back once in a while, which made him unable to find out what the political atmosphere within the empire was.

Today, the State Council and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have long been tied together, and because these two agencies control most of the power departments of the state, their power is completely unequal. Within the scope of national politics, out of an absolutely strong position.

And when it was discovered that the State Council and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were converging together, the Imperial Court also began to take the initiative to move closer to the State Council, especially when Earl Wang Tao became the Imperial Justice, this trend of getting closer was even more obvious.

In other words, today's Chinese Empire, the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The State Council and the courts have all formed an alliance and formed a force. On the surface, this force is centered on Queen Yin Susu, but in fact, because Yin Susu doesn't care about state affairs and watches her children at home all day long, the real mastermind has become Prime Minister Shen Shiming.

Other words. The judicial power and the judicial power have merged into one body, which has become the largest faction within the empire. The only thing that has not yet converged, or can be called an opponent, is the Parliament, or the Senate.

The parliamentary system of the Chinese Empire was divided into the Senate and the Parliament, which was actually the difference between the upper house and the lower house.

Due to the national situation, the parliament, that is, the lower house, has no dominant power, only the power of supervision and the right to build, and because the Senate can interfere with the judiciary and administrative orders, and the head of the Senate is the emperor's elder brother, the righteous king Li Yongchang, it has become the only force that can oppose the alliance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Council and the courts.

Of course, to put it mildly, the reason why the Imperial Internal Affairs Office and the State Council were united so quickly, and even the courts took the initiative to move closer to the State Council, had nothing to do with the Senate, or rather with the righteous king.

I think that at the beginning, Li Yongchang gave up the position of prime minister of the State Council and went to the western United States to explore the way first, which was originally far away from politics, but then he came back, but the emperor left, and then this righteous king was unwilling to be lonely.

The reason is very simple, His Royal Highness the Righteous King probably became wild after going abroad, and he couldn't stay in one place for a long time, so after returning to China, he took a ticket of bodyguards and his subordinates and began to wander around.

Of course, if it's just a simple tour of the mountains and rivers, but His Royal Highness the Righteous King is too capable of tossing, and he has to make a lot of trouble everywhere. At the beginning, His Royal Highness the Righteous King was always able to stir up the local officialdom everywhere he went, and then later, he was so stupid that he even ran away from the autonomous province, and he had to bother the local garrison to be careful every time.

In a word, His Royal Highness the Righteous King is a real angry young man, he always wants to move his set of beautiful things to China, so every time he sees any ugly phenomenon, he has to reach out to take care of it, and he also likes to implicate him, and if he is implicated, it will be a large piece.

But the problem is that when the water is clear, there are no fish, especially when China has just been liberated from the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, even if the national system has changed, some customs and habits, as well as the customs and sophistication of the older generation, have not completely changed, and they are reflected in the officialdom, and they will inevitably not all become Hai Jui.

However, what about His Royal Highness the Righteous King, although he has had the experience of being a prime minister before, what is his situation? People were directly in the center, and at that time, the empire was also in the period of fighting the world, so it was natural to be simple, and all the administration was centered on military affairs to serve, which was naturally relatively simple.

Moreover, at that time, the officials under Li Yongchang were basically newly recruited, and they were all under their noses, so they were naturally easy to manage and control, and they still looked like they were like that, as if they were very clean.

But the magistrates below are different, due to historical problems, the magistrates are all elected by the local gentry, but the situation in China is different from that of foreign countries, the elected magistrates are basically local heroes, although it cannot be said that they are all bullies, but most of them have unclean hands and feet.

In addition, the fact that the local government can become powerful shows that most of them have something to do with many old bureaucrats in the previous dynasty.

Previously, Li Yongchang was in the center. I can't touch these things, and I don't have time to take care of them, after all, at that time, just being busy with financial and logistical things was enough for him, but now that he is free, so his nosy mind is fully mobilized, especially when he knocks out a vote of bureaucrats and is shouted by the local people Chitose and Daqingtian, the sense of satisfaction is especially strong.

In Li Yongchang's view, dealing with those red tapes in the center is far from what it is now. Travel around, knock on the local bureaucrats by the way, and then enjoy the people's gratitude to the people, and come to the fun and pleasure.

It is precisely because he has a stronger sense of satisfaction and a happier life that he is even more happy to do this, and with more enthusiasm, he devotes himself to cracking down on local tyrants and inferior gentry and illegal bureaucrats in various places.

The situation in China today. It's a typical pyramid structure, where the poor are the majority, and the real powerful and rich are just that. If it is more true, most of the magistrates who are elected by election can have something to do with the central court.

Now it's okay, the righteous king is simply an officialdom mourning star. Wherever he goes, the scourge goes, and because he likes to play implicated. Often even the officials of the central government have been harmed, and even several of Shen Shiming's good subordinates who are used to it have been forced to resign.

Even the State Council is like this, and the court system is naturally not much different, after all, those who can become judges must be scholars, and the families of scholars are not too poor to be more or less, even if they were relatively poor before, once someone from the clan becomes a judge, the family can also prosper quickly, and this prosperity does not even need the judge to do something, as long as there is this fact, the local government will look up to it.

Therefore, when the empire is established and the new magnates rise, the families of the new magnates also rise, which is a normal phenomenon, and this has been the case in all dynasties.

The reason is very simple, in China, the idea of the official standard is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even if the military standard rises strongly, it still cannot stop the strong position of the official standard, and even the military standard has become an extension of the official standard.

Then, in the general official-oriented ideological environment, once someone in the family becomes an official in the new dynasty government, especially a senior official of the central government, then the management solution still does not understand how big this official is, at least in his hometown, the identity and status of this official's family are different. There is no need for the family to do anything, and the people around them will automatically and spontaneously do a lot of things for the family.

This is the same as the fact that someone in the previous dynasty was promoted, and then the people around him sent the field and money, fundamentally speaking, everyone wants to cling to the powerful, and they don't want to be unhappy with the new powerful or the new powerful family.

Once a person is rich, and he is supported by the people around him, his heart will often swell, and in addition, he has a lot of mouths and indifferent legal awareness, and it is inevitable to do something that violates the law and discipline. In the same way, it is impossible for a person to have no enemies, nor can he be without jealous and hateful people, so there will never be a shortage of informers.

Therefore, although Li Yongchang's journey to the blue sky seems to be a great thing, it is actually a useless work, because because he has eliminated a group of bureaucrats, and the new people may not be much better than the original people, and may even be worse. Moreover, the newcomers, because they have learned from their predecessors, will do things more covertly, and in fact they will be more unfavorable to supervision.

There is no way, at this time, the Chinese people have no consciousness of fighting for their rights at all, most of them are living together, and most of the so-called accusations are not from the original intention, but from the will of the collective.

As for those initiatives that shout about the sky, they can't be the whole story, you must know that the urbanization process in China is quite low at this time, most of them live in the countryside, far from each other, and one group of people is grateful to you, but it does not mean that another wave of people is the same.

Even, the local people often have personal enmities, one side gains, the other side has losses, so in the final analysis, Li Yongchang's practice has no practical benefits to the imperial government, even if he dealt with a large number of officials, but in addition to winning a lot of reputation for himself, there is no substantive change in the local officialdom at all, and even a lot of trouble for the central government, which is not conducive to the stability of the government.

In short, it is because His Royal Highness the Righteous King likes to expose everywhere, and the officialdom up and down is not peaceful, so the State Council and the court are getting closer and closer, and they are slowly coming together.

Of course, if that's all there is, it's nothing, but the problem is that the people in the Senate and the Parliament still have a lot of wealth, and the so-called imperial merchants and pseudo-imperial merchants are not mentioned. Those who are not qualified to become pseudo-imperial businessmen, in order to be able to do business conveniently, most of them have bought the status of a councilor.

That's right, it's to buy a member, the Senate can't do it, it has to be a core person, but the House of Commons, that is, the parliament, has a lot of seats, and if you spend money to buy a member, you can also see the official and not worship. You can even make irresponsible remarks about local officials.

After all, according to the laws of the empire, parliament can supervise the government, and parliamentarians can question or even impeach local government officials, so although parliamentarians usually have no real power, it is a big trouble for local officials.

The reason is very simple, the central government will not talk about it, in every locality, except for the government yamen. There is also the parliament, which once the parliament convenes, to impeach a local official, with the consent of more than two-thirds. It is possible to make this official stop his activities and be in a period of observation and self-blame.

Then, the higher court system will step in and investigate the official. When the investigation is completed, either the evidence is insufficient, and the official will be reinstated. Either the evidence is conclusive and the official is convicted, and then the executive branch formally dismisses the official and punishes him accordingly.

In short, because the investigation process is quite lengthy, even if the official is ultimately proven wronged, the impeachment of the parliament is wrong, and the work is usually delayed for at least half a year. And even if the officials are wronged, their work is delayed, and they are under an unknown amount of pressure during the period, the members of the parliament will not be blamed at all, they will do whatever they want, and they can even find another reason to impeach you again after a while.

It is precisely because of this urine nature of the parliament that the local government and the local court are quite dissatisfied, but after all, this is the policy implemented by the emperor at the beginning, and everyone has not been in office for a few years, and they are not so bold, so they dare not speak out and dare not attack this parliament.

Moreover, this council can impeach not only the magistrates, but also the internal affairs of the internal affairs of the internal affairs department, especially many expatriate internal affairs themselves have the function of supervising the local business operations, plus some historical factors, internal affairs are generally regarded as expatriate eunuchs and other people, which is very unpleasant, so the frequency of impeachment of expatriate internal affairs is higher than that of local government administrative officials.

In other words, because the parliament has the power of supervision and impeachment, and because most of the parliamentarians are local tyrants, rich landlords or capitalists, there are many conflicts with the new local bureaucrats who have become officials, so that the local bureaucrats cannot happily extract profits from these people, so the two sides naturally become enemies.

If you think about it carefully, it is easy to understand that the local government is poor and white, and if you want to make money, you have to rely on taxes, but ordinary people have little money, and according to the new tax collection system of the empire, they can't collect any taxes on this group of people, so the biggest source of tax revenue is nothing more than those luxury taxes, business taxes, personal income taxes and value-added tax and the like.

But these taxes can only be collected from the rich, and the poor do not have these taxes, but the rich have become parliamentarians one after another, which is equivalent to the original sheep becoming a big bad wolf, not only can not shear the sheep happily, but also have to be bitten by the other party first, why bother?

China's merchants are not naturally weak, but they are the result of the suppression of successive dynasties and governments, after all, most of the time, merchants are a low-status class and an exploited class.

However, now that businessmen can pay for a councillor, they can be on an equal footing with officials, and they can even co-op to bully officials, which makes them quickly change from the role of the big sheep to the big bad wolf.

Although parliament must be held, and more than two-thirds of the people can pass the impeachment bill, because most of the members of the parliament are businessmen and have common demands, once the reasons for impeachment are passable, most of the impeachment bills can be passed, and this means of impeachment is what makes officials jealous.

In short, when the legislators had the big knife of impeachment, the magistrates felt that life was very difficult, but because this system was created by the emperor, everyone did not dare to attack it openly, so it was inevitable to embrace the unity party.

Therefore, even if there is no Li Yongchang's misdeeds, as long as the system of impeaching officials but not punishing officials in the parliament still exists, the people of the internal affairs office, the State Council, and the courts will sooner or later become a family.

What Shen Shiming did was just to take advantage of the situation and become the leader of this new group when everyone was in need.

Therefore, the current internal struggle of the empire, this is not how ambitious Shen Shiming is, nor is it any inferior root of the Chinese, it is really the call of the times, and it is also the self-adaptation and self-repair of the national political system in the process of development.

In the final analysis, Li Yongji was too capricious when he set up the political system, completely messed around according to his own preferences, completely did not take into account the national conditions and people's feelings, and stubbornly engaged in some kind of decentralization, and the result was what he is now.

Therefore, these political struggles within the empire are not so much the inferior nature of the Chinese as the run-in between the new system and the old ideas, and those so-called collisions are just sparks generated in the run-in. (To be continued......) R1292