Su Mei and Xiao Man walked into the East Garden, looking at the courtyard full of kneeling people, Xiao Man tiptoed and asked Su Mei in a low voice: "Didn't we stab the hornet's nest?" ”

Su Mei was also a little flustered, walked up to Gu Yingsleeve, and asked softly, "Is Lin Jian furious, where did he go and leave all the people in this courtyard here?" ”

"Did you get angry, I don't know, you go and ask him yourself?" Gu Ying's sleeves pursed her lips and motioned for Lin to be tied to the study in the left wing.

Su Mei wanted to go in, but Xiao Man grabbed her, meaning not to go in and be severely reprimanded for nothing: Lin Lian only told the two sisters about the establishment of the heir, and they poked this matter out at this time, no matter how big the reason is, maybe Lin Lian will anger them?

Su Mei smiled, patted Xiaoman's hand, and pulled her to push the door in.

The study room is quite large, and the outer wing room is just a glass lamp on the corner table, and the light is dim, but you can see Lin Jian sitting in the inner wing, sitting with his back to the door, his back is tense, and he seems to be angry.

"Husband, Su Mei and Xiaoman came over to ask for guilt!" Su Mei opened his mouth and said.

"Oh, come in." Lin Jian turned around, put down the drawings in his hand, and motioned for them to close the door so that the people in the courtyard would not see the situation inside.

"You're not angry?" Xiao Man saw that Lin Bin's face was as usual, there was no anger and hideous, and he wanted to eat the two of them, and then looked at the drawings that Lin Jian put on the table, it turned out to be a mechanical drawing with a complex structure, but he didn't expect him to leave a group of people kneeling in the courtyard, and he actually had the leisure time to sit alone in the study to study the mechanical drawings, he really didn't have any anger.

"Why aren't you angry, you two are so bold?" Lin Jian raised his face, but he stretched out his hand to pull Su Mei and Xiaoman to him, laughed again, and said, "I was very angry, but when I saw this pumping machine diagram on the desk, I was distracted after a closer look, and I didn't feel so angry......

"At the time of today's celebration, you can't make people outside still kneel in the courtyard! If you want to scold and punish, the husband will punish us sisters. Su Mei said.

"Let them kneel a little longer," Lin Jian said, sighed again, and said, "After today, this world is actually the world of my Lin family: although Emperor Yongxing is in power, the imperial party still has three or five minions, but it is no longer enough to trouble; The weakening of Huaixi, Sichuan and Shu and the Northern Expedition are all planned. In fact, from today onwards, the struggle for power in the world has actually shifted to Huaidong. In other words, the resistance to the implementation of the new policy is actually no longer external, but has shifted to the internal distribution of interests in Huaidong...... I originally planned to mention the matter of establishing a successor after today, but I didn't expect you two sisters to make this show for me; But it's okay, press them first in terms of momentum, and then sit on the ground and pay back the money! ”

"It's just that the husband's sky-high asking price is too shocking, not to mention that the second uncle bullied Jun Xun's mother and daughter, even Jun Xun herself didn't dare to think so," Su Mei said, "I thought about it with Xiao Man, and then I thought about discussing it with Sister Yingsleeve, and you can't complain about Sister Yingsleeve ...... this matter."

"Turn around and slap her ass twice to vent your hatred." Lin Jian said.

Su Mei pinched him lightly and didn't ask him to talk nonsense.

"There are kneeling people all over the courtyard, how are you going to end up," Xiao Man asked, "There is still a big celebration feast in this outer courtyard." ”

"If the Northern Expedition fails, I will delay and not waste Yuanyue, what's the matter?" Lin Jian said, "You should have heard about the matter of folding the reward field into the money village in Jiangning, so what is the discussion in Jiangning, you tell me about it......

"As far as I said, ordinary generals, there is not much disagreement, it seems that the second uncle has some other ideas." Su Mei said, and deliberately did not say how serious the problem was.

"It's not surprising that there are other ideas," Lin Jian said, "a new dynasty will be established, and it is a tradition for the great feudal clan to consolidate the imperial power—the foreign surname is the prince of Feng, and the Lin family is also the king of the domain; As soon as a new dynasty is established, the Great Seal Sect will inevitably be put on the agenda immediately; If they only let them have more shares in the money bank than ordinary generals, and have no other privileges, it will naturally be difficult to be satisfied. If you look at today's incident, Song, Cao, Qin, and Sun all opposed the establishment of the monarch as their heirs, but in the end, it was the second uncle, Xuwen and Mengde who came out - what does this mean? It shows that the establishment of the heir is not a private matter of me alone, nor is it the official matter of the generals and ministers of Huaidong, but an internal matter of the Lin clan; It shows that the person kneeling outside will regard the three thousand miles of rivers and mountains as the world of the Lin family from today on. This is contrary to what I want to 'abolish the imperial court and establish a country'. And the foundation of the new policy I want to implement is to abolish the imperial court and establish the country, and the monarchy needs to be established, but the clan does not need to be sealed; The power of the phase should be real, but the power of the phase cannot be concentrated in one person, it must be dismembered; There will be repeated battles behind this, even if I can't go against the trend, I have to lose my face and bargain with others......"

Su Mei was thoughtful, but Xiaoman was confused.

Lin Jian said again: "As for today, it's easy to clean up, you go outside and tell everyone, and say that I already know that the establishment of the heir is not my private matter, and I don't care about this matter, let them convene a meeting of the public government to discuss the system of the heir." The council of the public government was headed and presided over by the second uncle, and eight members of the Lin family and twenty-five civil and military officials were selected from the Privy Council to participate in the decision on the matter of appointing the heir, and if the conclusion of the discussion was approved by two-thirds of the number of people, it could be established as a custom; If you want to change it, you need to convene a separate public meeting to discuss it......"

"The Communal Council?" Su Mei said suspiciously.

Lin Jian nodded, sighed lightly, and looked at the internal struggle of the dynasty, which was nothing more than the struggle between the monarch and the relative power. And between the contradiction between the monarchy and the relative power, it is full of intricate open and secret battles between the clan, relatives, courtiers and foreign ministers, which is extremely bloody, that is, the Han Dynasty, with the ability of the Han Gaozu, it is inevitable that his descendants almost asked Empress Lu to kill a clean.

If he wants to bring the whole society into a new pattern of primary industrialization, he must give up the "family world", otherwise he can only go down the old road, and the reality of the hypocrite is also an inevitable trend. However, the power of the phase is excessively concentrated in the hands of a few people, even if the term of office of the phase can be limited by the system, it is difficult to ensure that it will not be broken through by various special circumstances in the future, and it is difficult to ensure that the future generations will not be able to produce powerful ministers, but in addition to the reality, it is more necessary to disperse the power of the phase, and before the people's wisdom is opened, it is not possible to simply copy the constitutional monarchy of later generations to design the political system.

Thinking of this, Lin Jian said to Su Mei: "I give in so much, I think they won't have any more opinions - you want them all to go to the front yard first, and after I finish studying this drawing, I will drink and celebrate with them." Oh, if they want to ask me how I'm feeling, you say I'm as irritable as thunder," and looked left and right, and said, "Forget it, everything in this room is quite expensive, so I won't smash things and make a noise," and then he deliberately raised his voice, "You go and tell them all to get up, get out of the front yard, and don't stay here and be annoying!" ”

Xiao Man stuck out his tongue, and Su Mei said: "Let Xiao Man stay here with you, she can't fake it like this, and she won't be able to hide it from the eyes of those people in the courtyard......"

Lin Lian nodded, and asked Su Mei to go out to deal with the people kneeling in the courtyard.

Su Mei came out and relayed the words of Lin Tie's establishment of the public council to Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, Song Fu, Qin Chengzu and others. After Su Mei finished speaking, he also turned around and walked away, picking up Jun Xun and walking away.

"The Communal Council?" Song Fu and the others stood up, some people couldn't help but rub their kneeling numb knees, and looked at each other, some people were puzzled for a while, Song Fu still couldn't help but glance at Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang and others.

Cao Ziang stood beside Song Fu and said softly, "This is the intention of the lord? ”

Song Fu looked at Lin Xuwen, Lin Tingli, and Lin Mengde again, and saw that the three of them were a little confused, so he nodded lightly, agreeing with Cao Ziang's opinion.

The system of establishing a prince has always been the foundation of the continuation of imperial power, and of course the establishment of a prince will not be completely a matter that Lin Jian can say alone, but since ancient times, this has always been regarded as an internal matter of the clan. Even when it comes to appointing a certain son as a successor, it may be necessary to convene three or five cronies of ministers to discuss it according to the system of establishing a successor, rather than involving foreign ministers when the system of establishing a prince is determined.

Song Fu: Naturally, they welcomed such a result.

Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen, and Lin Mengde also looked at each other, but they didn't expect this result: only eight members of the Lin family were eligible to participate in the system of the public council to decide on the establishment of heirs.

It's just that Lin Jian has retreated to this point, and if they want to fight again, Song Fu and the others will not support it; And under Lin Bin's anger, the three of them didn't want to provoke Lin Bin's fire anymore, that is, Lin Tie stubbornly established the monarch as the prince, what can they do now? Lin Tingli sighed lightly and said, "I think that's it, the banquet in the front yard is about to start, and you can't let outsiders see the jokes......"

Everyone walked out in different moods, Lin Mengde dragged behind, and asked Qin Chengzu, who was also dragging behind: "Is it that if you can't decide something in the future, you will call a public government meeting to decide?" ”

Qin Chengzu pondered for a moment and said, "The lord probably won't have anything difficult to decide, maybe this example is to prevent the right ministers from bullying the lord in the future, right?" ”

Lin Mengde thought about it, and the public government meeting only gave eight people from the Lin family to participate in the decision to establish a successor and a prince, so it can only be said that Lin Lian's determination to change the old pattern of "family and world" will not change. However, if you don't use the old system of "family and world", you can't use the power of relatives, courtiers or clans to check and balance the foreign ministers, and no one can threaten his power, but when the descendants succeed to the throne, the power of the foreign ministers will be over-expanded if they lack limited constraints, and it is easy to concentrate these powers on a small number of people to form eunuchs who will harm the monarch's power - the public council is actually to disperse, disintegrate, and restrain the relative power, so as not to make the relative power long-term or excessively concentrated in a small number of people.

Although the Lin family can only have eight people to participate in this meeting, the public council can really be customized, which means that in the future, the royal family will have a way to directly participate in political affairs: the proportion of a quarter of the number is not low.