"Husband, are you doing this too much? After all, Ouyang Xuan is a veteran in the government department, and without him, our government affairs system would not have been able to be built. If it weren't for him, no one in our civil service would be able to afford it. But husband, you are actually asking him to get out of here now, isn't this crossing the river and demolishing the bridge to unload the mill and kill the donkey? It can be said that he is the first person in our civil service system, and if there is no him, I am afraid there will be no civil service system! Even the economic development of these years is in charge of him. Now that you tell him to get out, isn't that equivalent to letting him leave at the peak of his career, how many people can stand it? What's more, if this is the case, how will the husband be seen in the future? Kang Tongwei asked.

Wang Guorui shook his head and said: "It is precisely because the entire civil service system was established by him, and almost all the people in the entire civil service system are his disciples and grandchildren, as long as he is still in this position, there will be many people who will take him as a spiritual leader." As long as he's still alive, the people under him won't fall apart. So he has to go, otherwise the entire civil service system will be monolithic, then I will definitely be under a lot of pressure. In recent years, I have attached more importance to the management of military affairs and despised the management of government affairs. I've almost delegated my government affairs to him, and I haven't been able to put too many people in my government system. I don't have to worry about the military system, there are Hu Wei, Hong'er, and the navy, and even there are many factions large and small. But among the civil officials, I don't have enough people to check and balance him, so I can only use a quick knife to cut through the mess, and let him get out. ”

"Isn't that a constitutional monarchy after that?" Zheng Hong asked.

"Do you really think that a constitutional monarchy is that useful? Of course, I allow a so-called constitutional monarchy, but that doesn't mean I'm willing to be cocooned by myself, you see? I allow them to limit the power of my descendants, but I don't allow them to limit my power, you see? ”

"Of course. Laws still have to be enacted, and the constitution still has to be there. However, there is a law, but whether it is implemented or not depends on the means of each party. How many laws have been enacted since ancient times and then shelved? If those powerful people since ancient times can abide by the law and do things completely according to the law, then there will be no change of dynasty in this world. It is precisely because there are so many laws in this world that cannot be accurately enforced. That's why there are so many things to change the dynasty. ”

"This law is to be wanted, and it is the most basic thing to maintain the country. But whether it can be implemented or not depends on the game in it. I don't want this constitution to act directly on my head, understand? This constitution affects my descendants, and I can't control it, but I will still support it. But I don't want this constitution to be the rope that binds me. I can use the law to do my own thing, but I don't want me to be too constrained by my own laws, you know? ”

"Even after the monarchy is constitutional, the king is not without power. Look at the UK. Britain has had a constitutional monarchy for so many years. But even decades ago, in the Victorian era, the king still had a lot of power. And the cabinet is still unable to effectively check and balance the king, and cannot really put the king in the air. And that was because the bourgeoisie was not monolithic at that time, and there were many factions within the bourgeoisie back then, and he was not able to twist into a rope to fight against the monarchy. As long as the king does not intend to continue to butcher them, then they will choose to compromise for the time being. The constitutional monarchy is nothing more than a product of mutual compromise, and this ultimate foundation is also a mutual compromise. However, this compromise was based on a balance between the monarchy and the bourgeoisie. ”

"There are many contradictions within the bourgeoisie, so they have great strength. To be precise, they are more powerful than kings, but they are not effective threats to kings because they are divided. And kings are different. Although the power in the king's hands is not large, it is very united, so that they twist into a rope and have a very great deterrent power against the scattered bourgeoisie. And the bourgeoisie also chose to compromise, as long as the king did not want to change the constitutional monarchy, then they also chose to compromise. ”

"But we're different here. We are not divided into different parties here. As long as that Ouyang Xuan is here for a day, then they are also all partisan. It is easy for the bourgeoisie to collude with them, so that it is easy for the power of the king to come into conflict with the power of their government. I don't want my men to have too much power while I'm alive. Even though I knew that these powers would be theirs sooner or later, I didn't want to be taken away while I was alive. Do you understand? ”

Kang Tongwei also roughly understood what Wang Guorui meant, Wang Guorui is actually an idea between a feudal king and a new-style king. The feudal king has very great power, and he concentrates all kinds of power, so it can be said that he has a heavenly constitution in his mouth. The legislative, judicial, executive, and military powers all belonged to the king, and they were seldom willing to let others share in the power. Why is it said that it is difficult to be a prince since ancient times? That's because the crown prince is the heir to the king on the one hand, but on the other hand, they are also courtiers. No king who has done something in the slightest way will allow anyone else to share his power, even if it is his son.

Any king's feelings for the crown prince are also very embarrassing. If you are a father and father, of course, you hope that your son will be strong and able to inherit the throne in the future and make the country stable. But on the other hand, they are also very worried that the prince is too good and threatens his position of power. This is a very embarrassing and helpless situation, on the one hand, those princes have to show their talents, let their father value themselves, and stabilize their position. But on the other hand, they must also "hide their clumsiness", so that they are not too good and touch the bottom line of their father as an emperor.

It sounds easy, but it's very difficult to do. Because any prince doesn't know where the bottom line in his father's heart is. Emperors with different backgrounds and different circumstances have different bottom lines. Some kings were more tolerant and could tolerate their sons being better, and even thought that it was good for their sons, or even courtiers, to be better than them. In the face of such a generous king, the prince or even the courtiers naturally don't have to worry too much. But if it's a cautious person, maybe a little better will be destroyed. Therefore, this "degree" is very difficult to grasp, and there is no unified standard at all. Even, even the reigning emperor, he himself may not know where his "bottom line" is, and he can't measure it in words, this kind of thing can only be understood but not spoken!

Wang Guorui's attitude towards the government, in fact, is the emperor's attitude towards the "crown prince". Although Wang Guorui knew that a constitutional monarchy would become inevitable in the future, he would sooner or later have to hand over power to the government. But he didn't want to be robbed of his power while he was alive. It's like many kings know that sooner or later the crown prince will inherit their throne, but those emperors are not able to allow their sons to compete with them for power while they are alive, and this is the difference.

Even if Wang Guorui knew that the government would definitely take over his power in the future, he didn't want the government to compete with him for power too soon.

"This Ouyang Xuan can be said to be the person who built the entire government system. If he's still around, and almost the entire government is his people, then of course I'm not at ease. If all of your subordinates are from the same party, how can you feel at ease as a boss? Since ancient times, courtiers have not fought, so where can the king have a peaceful birthday? But don't you think that these civil officials under Ouyang Xuan are too harmonious now? ”

The civil officials under Ouyang Xuan are also too harmonious, they are simply so harmonious that they are abnormal. However, this was also caused by Wang Guorui, at that time he entrusted almost all civil government affairs to Ouyang Xuan, Wang Guorui would only take the initiative to provide technology, and almost everything else was let Ouyang Xuan do. So in this way, Ouyang Xuan almost grasps the financial power, and almost all the officials are also recommended by Ouyang Xuan. Although Wang Guorui has a personnel department, this personnel department has almost no role. Because this personnel department is more responsible for political review, checking whether they have inappropriate behavior, or what party they have joined. The specific personnel appointment and transfer are more recommended by Ouyang Xuan, and the personnel department only has the right to review, and the initiative in understanding the appointment is very poor.

Wang Guorui wanted to avoid fighting within the government at that time, so he simply didn't do anything and directly let Ouyang Xuan take full responsibility. If there are many internal contradictions in the early stage of the business, it will definitely collapse. Anyway, at that time, Wang Guorui thought that he had mastered the army, so he was naturally not afraid that others would be able to make trouble.

However, at this time and at that time, the previous system was not established, so naturally I am not afraid of them making trouble. But now once on the throne, a constitutional monarchy is inevitable. Wang Guorui doesn't want those civil officials to have the ability to borrow the constitution to grab power with themselves, which is not fun. The constitution is a rope that can bind Wang Guorui to a certain extent. But the rope is also exquisite, if it is strong enough, it will naturally be able to bind Wang Guorui. However, Wang Guorui's strength is still good, and he can completely burst this rope.

Of course, even if the rope is strong, it depends on whether the person who uses the rope to bind Wang Guorui is "powerful". If the "kidnapper" has a strong rope, but does not have enough strength to tie the "hostage" strongly, it is all in vain. Therefore, since Wang Guorui can't solve the problem in terms of the strength of the rope, he can only solve the problem from another angle, that is, to reduce the strength of the "kidnapper" who controls the rope, so that their strength is not enough to tie Wang Guorui. And the best way is to split the civilian clique. (To be continued.) )