Chapter VI Deepening Reform: Three Provinces and Six Ministries
People like Deng Zhi belong to the die-hard faction and are also relatively conservative people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info they are indeed sincerely for the sake of the emperor and the Han, at least they themselves think so.
They advised the emperor not to carry out institutional reforms, indeed out of public interest, and they were really worried that the institutional reforms would lead to chaos in the court.
They were worried that if the emperor gave up power, the government would be controlled by powerful ministers, and there would be a situation like "Ten Standing Servants Messing Down" and "Cao Cao coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes", so that the Han Dynasty, which had finally settled down, fell into war again.
These people are undoubtedly loyal ministers, and they are dedicated to the public and the country, but unfortunately, their thinking is limited, and their thinking is not broad enough, and they cannot see the advanced nature of this system through the fog of history.
Another opponent is Zhuge Liang, who also wrote against this kind of institutional reform, but whether he did it out of public or selfish motives, Liu Hou could not discern.
After the institutional reform, Zhuge Liang is still the prime minister, as the first assistant of the cabinet, he is still a position above tens of thousands of people under one person, on the surface, his interests do not seem to be damaged, but in fact, they are not.
Before the reform, he was the prime minister, and he was a dictatorial prime minister who controlled the government single-handedly. Due to Liu Hou's delegation of power, almost all government affairs of the Han Dynasty were handled by him. In this case, he has almost the same power as the emperor, and it can be said that he can almost do what he says.
After the institutional reform, the power he had previously held was transferred to the cabinet. There are five or six cabinet ministers in the cabinet, and what he used to be able to decide with one word is now up to several cabinet ministers to discuss, and if everyone cannot agree on the same opinion, they still need to be decided by voting.
This is tantamount to dispersing his original power into the hands of a few ministers, and he has lost the power to make a decision. Now he always feels tied to things, and now he can no longer do what he wants, and many things have a lot of constraints.
Therefore, in a sense, the biggest victim of this institutional reform is Zhuge Liang, and it can even be said that the cabinet is specifically aimed at Zhuge Liang, and it is the setting that Liu Hou uses to check and balance his power. According to the general logical thinking, if he had selfish intentions, he would definitely oppose such reforms.
However, it cannot be said that his opposition is for selfishness, and it is also possible that he is really worried that the reform will disrupt the government and make the world fall into turmoil~ chaos again. After all, this is the person who once said "do your best, and then die".
From Liu Hou's perception, there is no doubt that this person is loyal to the Han royal family, but it is unknown whether he will love power. Therefore, it is really difficult to judge whether his opposition is out of public or selfish intentions.
However, Liu Hou does not need to figure out whether the opposition of these people is out of public or selfish intentions, and for what reason, for him, as long as he can achieve his goal.
His aim was simple, that is, to carry out institutional reform according to his own ideas, and the first step in the reform was to establish a cabinet. As for those who are naissitier, he doesn't need to worry about it at all, because he has more supporters.
At the slightest hint from him, the supporters will flock to the naysayers like sharks smelling of blood. With the support of the emperor and the advantage of numbers, even if the opponent lineup has a highly respected power like Zhuge Liang, it cannot confront the supporter camp.
Soon, the formation of the cabinet was smoothly passed, and the cabinet was successfully formed. Several cabinet ministers were capable ministers, and they quickly took over all government affairs, and Liu Hou could finally be freed from the heavy government affairs and no longer have to live that kind of daily life.
has time to accompany the three queens to have babies, this is the life he wants. After the government was well organized by the efforts of several cabinet ministers, and Liu Hou had a good time, he began to prepare to launch further institutional reforms. This time it was a subversive reform, because he finally planned to overthrow the system of three princes and nine secretaries and officially start the system of three provinces and six ministries.
For the system of three provinces and six ministries, Liu Hou has been planning for a long time, and he has long ordered Chen Qun to secretly make all kinds of preparations. Now that it is going to be officially launched, it is naturally up to Chen Qun to take the lead.
One day in the early morning, Chen Qun made an excerpt, stating in detail the various shortcomings of the system of three princes and nine secretaries, mercilessly criticizing this system that had been implemented for many years as incomplete and worthless, and finally came to the conclusion that this system had to be changed. It has even raised this reform to a level that is closely related to the rise and fall of the country.
The ministers were in an uproar, the emperor wanted to have a rhythm of big movements. That's right, as soon as Chen Qun's fold was published, the ministers had already guessed that this was what the emperor meant. The little emperor has just tossed out a cabinet, and it seems that he is addicted to institutional reform, and now he wants to make a big move against the long-standing system of three princes and nine secretaries.
Chen Qun's excerpt once again set off an uproar in the court ~ waves, the last cabinet reform, although it also caused fierce debate among the ministers, but, that time most of the ministers were in favor of the reform, a small part was against, and there were only a few people in the cabinet, and the redistribution of interests involved was only within the scope of a few people, so the last cabinet reform ~ wave was not strong.
But this time is different, this time it is a reform of the official system of the entire court, and it can be said that almost every courtier is involved. This is tantamount to reshuffling the entire court and redistributing interests.
It's not about you, but what if it's about your own vital interests? That's something to fight for. The scope of this reform is too broad for anyone to be left untouched, so no one can remain silent.
So, as expected, the entire court was boiling, and the court meeting changed from one day in five days to one day in three days, and then to one day in one day. Every day at the court meeting, the ministers would fall into endless quarrels, and the monarchs and ministers could not play normally at all, and Liu Hou did not use his authority to forcibly control this chaos, on the contrary, he was a little laissez-faire.
Chen Qun threw out the system of three provinces and six ministries in a timely manner for everyone to discuss, so when everyone had not yet discussed the question of whether the system of three princes and nine secretaries should be abolished or retained, there was another hot spot for discussion, and the two hot spots of controversy caused waves of enthusiasm in the court.
Human beings are naturally afraid of the unknown, the difference is that some people are more fearful and some are weaker. If the system of three princes and nine secretaries is abandoned and the system of three provinces and six ministries is implemented, most of the people in the court will have to adjust their jobs, and there will even be a number of people who will be laid off.
Some courtiers are afraid of being demoted, some are afraid of being fired, and some are afraid of not adapting to their new positions.