Zhou Lu and the ministers were chatting, Wang Chengen walked to the side, leaned into his ear and whispered:

"Your Majesty, Chen Yuanyuan asked to see him outside the palace, saying that he had something important to do, did he see it?"

Why did Chen Yuanyuan come?

She is Wu Sangui's concubine, what will happen?

However, I miss her performance of singing and dancing at the same time.

Zhou Lu pursed his lips: "See, let her go to Jingyang Palace and wait." ”

"Yes." Wang Chengen bowed and retreated.

A strange smile flashed in the corner of Eunuch Wang's eyes, and then a trace of worry flashed over him.

Three days ago, the emperor summoned Chen Yuanyuan, a lonely man and a widow who stayed in Jingyang Palace for a long time.

The point is that when Chen Yuanyuan came out, his clothes were disheveled, his hair was slightly disheveled, and his body smelled of sweat.

And Chen Yuanyuan has no obvious merits, but he has to be named Mrs. Xuan, and his status is higher than that of Wu Sangui's wife, Zhang.

Wang Chengen coincided with these circumstances and speculated that Wu Sangui was green.

Love is a light, so green that you panic.

Now, Chen Yuanyuan came to the palace and took the initiative to ask to see the emperor, indicating that this matter has not been resolved.

As an interested emperor's confidant, this matter naturally has to be reported first, and Chen Yuanyuan may become the concubine of the emperor's harem, so he can't wait for it.

The emperor doesn't care about the matter of concubines, and it is rare to have a woman he likes.

It's just that Wang Chengen is very worried, narrow-minded, and Wu Sangui, who has a heavy army in his hand and is in the important task of border defense, if he knows about this, it will be unfavorable to the emperor.

But it's hard to say clearly, he can only try to keep it secret for the emperor.

Zhou Lu didn't go to see Chen Yuanyuan right away.

He continued to discuss with Fan Jingwen, Li Banghua and others.

He proposed a major change that stunned his ministers.

The Ming official system was drastically changed.

Zhou Lu's plan subverted everyone's understanding of officials.

He proposed that being an official is also a service industry, which is similar in essence to the shopkeeper, being an official gets a salary to serve the country and the people, and the shopkeeper gets a salary and serves customers.

The difference is that the role, power, and merit are different, but the essence is to serve the public.

Therefore, every seven days, all local officials must go out into the streets, set up a platform, report their work to the people, and listen to the opinions of the people's representatives, regardless of whether anyone is listening or not.

Being able to meet the people face to face is called being truly close to the people.

I took office as the county lord for a whole year, and I took a sedan chair to take a sedan chair, and the people didn't know you, you said you were close to the people? Kiss the yarn.

No face, too strict, afraid of danger?

Resign!

No one has a knife on your neck to force you to be an official.

Those who want to be officials, in a queue, may be longer than the Great Wall.

People who have ambitions, want to grasp some power, and want to do something for the people and the country, Daming is really not afraid of this era.

What's more, people who really want to do things for the people still care about going to the street to report to the people?

Zhou Lu put forward this regulation in the hope that the common people would play a certain supervisory role in the Ming bureaucrats, especially the local officials far away from the Tiangao Emperor, fundamentally weaken their privileges, and drive them from the high yamen to the streets.

Relying only on more than 1,000 Jinyi guards to supervise the entire country is not enough at all, and the supervisory role of the people must be brought into play.

It may not necessarily be very effective, but at least it is a first step and an important attempt.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the ministers agree."

After thinking about it, Fan Jingwen, Li Banghua and others came to a consensus, and they were very happy that the emperor could put forward such a measure.

They were dumbfounded, surprised that the emperor's proposal was too advanced and unprecedented.

After thinking about it carefully, they immediately felt that if this move was implemented, it would be beneficial and harmless to the country and the people.

What is lost is only a little face for the officials.

Zhou Lu nodded: "Okay, then announce it immediately, and if you think you can't do it, take the initiative to resign, otherwise, if you find out the violators of Yang Fengyin, you will be beheaded all over the house!" ”

Hiss......

The ministers gasped.

It's all over the house again.

The emperor is too ruthless.

But then again, in the troubled times, the local forces are very strong, the officials protect each other, and if they are not ruthless, this internal policy really cannot be implemented.

Afterwards.

Zhou Lu also proposed major changes in several aspects.

It is all a plan that is ahead of the times and in line with the current national conditions.

One by one, they were supported by the ministers.

After all, they are all decent and loyal ministers, as long as it is good for the country and the people, they will not have an opinion.

Of course, it was also because of Zhou Lu's series of god-like performances that made them extremely trusting and in awe, even if they didn't understand it, they chose to listen to the emperor.

Zhou Lu was very satisfied.

He mainly pointed out the direction, and the specific affairs still had to be handed over to the ministers to deal with.

And he had to get out of the Northern Expedition to solve the imminent big foreign trouble.

The memory bank obtained from "a glance for thousands of years" in the main hall of the Tomb of the Witch King has helped me more and more, and most of the above measures are from the help of the memory bank.

But whose wisdom and knowledge is this?

The Witch King?

Who is the Witch King?

And why did you pass it on to me?

Several intractable mysteries hovered in Zhou Lu's mind.

……

……

The next day.

Zhou Lu rode a bloody horse, led an army of 100,000, mighty, and marched towards Shanhaiguan.

That's right, one hundred thousand.

Soldiers are in the fine, not in the many.

Zhou Lu only selected the most elite troops, focusing on cavalry, as well as the firearms troops of the Shenji Battalion.

Xu Da, Lu Xiangsheng, Li Chengliang, and Li Wenzhong will accompany him.

The four demons will still be attached to their unsightly people.

The four of them and the pro-soldier heroic spirits they summoned are generally invincible and immortal existences, although they are small in number, they are the core and most terrifying secret weapons of Zhou Lu.

And Zhou Lu had a question buried in his heart.

Li Zicheng's elite Shun army, possessed by tens of thousands of plague ghosts, how could he not be able to defeat the Qing army?

In historical data, Wu Sangui united with the Qing army, causing Li Zicheng to suffer a disastrous defeat.

Zhou Lu thought of Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui, a bastard, is a particularly top-notch scheming bitch.

Yesterday, Chen Yuanyuan entered the palace to play secretly, which is really important.

She exposed Wu Sangui and had exchanged letters with Li Zicheng, which was delivered by the brother of Wu Sangui's wife.

Chen Yuanyuan, as Wu Sangui's concubine, didn't want to and didn't dare to expose it, because it didn't do her any good, and it might kill herself.

But since meeting Zhou Lu alone and getting the official position of Mrs. Decree, the situation has changed dramatically.

First, her mentality has changed, and the emperor's position in her heart has gradually overshadowed Wu Sangui.

The second is that she is in the Pingxibo Mansion, and it is difficult to stay.

The main wife, Zhang, was jealous that Chen Yuanyuan had won the title of Mrs. Decree, so she fabricated the facts, saying that Chen Yuanyuan seduced the emperor, shamelessly cheated, and did not abide by the name of women, saying that she was a prostitute, with a low status, not clean, and unworthy of being Mrs. Fate.

The Zhang family had the highest status in the house, and united the whole family to squeeze out Chen Yuanyuan, and even sent people to beat him.

Chen Yuanyuan couldn't stand it, and in a fit of anger, he decided to enter the palace in private to face the saint and expose Wu Sangui.

In other words, between the emperor and Wu Sangui, she chose to stand on the emperor's side, of course, to protect herself.

Her singing and dancing have been liked and praised by the emperor, so she is also a little confident.