"Is it possible to change the status quo under the current situation of corruption in Shu without major institutional reform?" Zhang Yushi asked the root question, raising this question that is more difficult to answer.

Chen Letian continued to gush. In his view, the system remains unchanged and changes the status quo. That's not a problem at all.

The key to corruption in Shu is autonomy. The autonomous Shu land will naturally give birth to corruption. There is no doubt about it. Without a good overall view and supreme supervision to control, there is no reason for Shudi to make changes at all.

Moreover, there is another aspect that cannot be said clearly, that is, the king of Shu did not dare to make Shu into a pure land that was cleaner than other places in the Great Song Dynasty.

Not to mention whether it can be done, even if it can be made into the King of Shu, he will not dare to do it.

If, in the past ten years, Shu has become more and more clear, the life of the people is better. There was no incident of officials oppressing the people, and when the people had grievances, they did not think about solving them themselves, but went to the government to mediate.

The officials and the people lived in harmony like a family.

Well, once this is the case in Shudi. What will the Imperial Court think? What will Your Majesty think?

Your King of Shu is very powerful, you have collected the hearts of the people of Shu so obediently, so capable?

At that time, is it better for the King of Shu to write to the throne of the prince, or to wait for the court to find an excuse to take off the crown?

So it's an endless loop.

The clearer Shu is, the better the people live, but the more suspicious the court is.

The less clear Shu is, the worse the life of the people, but the more relieved the court is.

These two must maintain a delicate balance, and no matter how much they lean towards that side, it will have a huge impact on the Shu family.

The suspicion is ruthless, and the Shu family is in danger of being exterminated by the imperial court. The court was relieved to be ruthless, and the Shu family was in danger of being overthrown by the overly oppressed people.

But when Chen Letian talked to them, of course, he would not explicitly mention this key point. But he also knew, and the imperial historians also knew, that this was a tacit reason that could not be clearly stated.

Therefore, is there a way to solve the problem of this system that the imperial historians do not change? This is a profound proof of this. If you don't change the system, the meaning behind this sentence is that you can't let Shu become a dark place where people's grievances are boiling, and you can't cut off the hat of the king of Shu.

Under this premise, find a way to solve the problem.

The dialogue between smart people is like this, say one, and the three behind it will come out, and there is no need to explain two.

After chatting with the imperial historians, Chen Letian went out.

The imperial historians looked at each other and sat down to drink tea with a long sigh of relief.

After drinking tea for a while, I waited for the imperial historians to chew on the long talk just now. Zhang Yushi said to them: "Chen Yushi is not only anxious for justice and righteousness, you must know that there are people in this world who are different from what he said on the surface. Mr. Chen is such a person."

You all nodded and listened.

Zhang Yushi paused and continued: "He doesn't abide by etiquette very well, and he actually has a careful heart under his rather presumptuous appearance, and everything we do and think here is under his nose." It can be said that although we are older than him, we have much worse experience than him, let's not think that he is older than him, and he is nothing. ”

"What do you mean—" Huang Yushi scratched his head.

"It means don't underestimate Master Chen, but respect him from the bottom of your heart. Zhang Yushi said. 52 Literature

"Yes, sir. The imperial historians bowed.

"Let's do things. Zhang Yushi nodded.

I also sat down at the table.

In the past few days, what Zhang Yushi has seen made him feel a little pressured.

He saw that Chen Letian's ability seemed to be a natural and powerful ability to be an official, if he was really allowed to go to the imperial court to sharpen it, I am afraid no one would dare to imagine what kind of height he could reach.

and Chen Letian's control over the officers and soldiers of the Northern Army.

After being a royal historian for so many years, Zhang Yushi has long heard what kind of soldiers the Northern Army is, and they are all a group of heroes who are not convinced by anyone.

Every time the general returned to Beijing, he often saw him. Not to mention the general, just to talk about the personal soldiers who followed the general, one by one, they all looked like the best in the world in the Northern Army.

Moreover, about the twists and turns of the Northern Army, they are often on the Yushitai. The Northern Army is too proud, and there is too much power in the several major military systems of the Northern Army, so Your Majesty should pay more attention. Although the general's merits are very high, he can't be too indulgent... Most of them should pay attention to the fact that the Northern Army cannot be a monopoly of the folds.

So maybe Zhang Yushi didn't know how strong the combat effectiveness of the Northern Army was, but he knew that the self-confidence of these soldiers must be the highest in the world.

And such a confident Northern Army, the elite of the Northern Army, the forward battalion.

The soldiers of the three hundred forward battalions, in front of Chen Letian, the commander of the forward battalion, who was only a member of the forward battalion, were actually willing to march and kneel. The expression on everyone's face was respectful. It is from the bottom of my heart to respect him Chen Letian himself, not to respect the prime minister's status as a royal historian.

Zhang Yushi was next to him at the time, looking at this rare situation, he was really shocked in his heart.

Including that Captain Lu, he actually obeyed his words. At the meeting or in private, Captain Lu had a lot of respect for Chen Letian.

This Chen Letian is not simple, right...

From the perspective of imperial history, seeing this situation, you should think about it more, but for now, let's keep it in my heart for the time being, and wait until these things in Shu are understood.

Two days later, the situation of the people's complaints came to an end for the time being.

At the same time, Chen Letian also issued the second decree of the Prime Minister's Yamen. The people of Shu outside Chengdu, if they want to sue, there are two ways, the first is to come to Chengdu and come directly to the Prime Minister's Yamen. The second way is to file a local complaint. This method is not just reported in the local county.

Instead, after the temporary inspection of the imperial history arrived in the local area, he began to report.

Chen Lotian handed over this task to the ten imperial historians.

and allocated ten people from his own guards, these ten people were headed by Feng Shan, and they were dispatched by Zhang Yushi.

In this way, there were twenty people, and these twenty people were distributed to collect the people's pleadings in the counties of Shudi.

In this way, it is avoided that the case will be intercepted by the local county magistrate. It avoids the situation that the people have no way to complain.

The day after the proclamation was issued, Zhang Yushi took the other nine imperial historians and the guards who temporarily served as the imperial historians to the following cities to collect the complaints.

Everyone went to the city they had planned, opened a small yamen in the local area to accept the people's submission of petitions, and at the same time carried out a certain amount of supervision and inquiry to the local county government to prevent the local government from intimidating the people.