The second day, the pilgrimage meeting.

Zhu Jianji presided.

After making decisions on some people's livelihood and political affairs, it is naturally the turn to discuss the Northern Expedition, and what was said at the tea party yesterday, except for land reform, other things need to be discussed and implemented by various departments after discussing with Zhu Jianji, so they are not included in the agenda of the Great Dynasty Conference.

After the great victory of the Northern Expedition, the dust settled.

The court meeting just discussed the logistics and food to continue to follow up, and then went to the court.

Zhu Jianji returned to the Qianqing Palace, and the head of the cabinet asked to see him.

Declare.

After that, Shang Chen walked into the Dongnuan Pavilion with a few guards of Tengxiang Wu Xiang and the four guards, folded more than 500 seals on the side of the soft couch, and said to Zhu Jianji: "Your Majesty, according to your will, all the civil and military officials who participated in the tea party yesterday wrote chapters on land matters, and not only that, but there were also many courtiers who did not come to the tea party, as well as some celebrities and dignitaries in Gyeonggi who did not come out, and even people from the Guozijian and the Hanlin Academy wrote chapters to reach the audience."

Zhu Jianji suddenly had one head and two big.

So much!

This dense and thick handful of chapters is estimated to be impossible to read in three or five days.

There's no hurry.

Take your time.

Agrarian reform is not a matter of a day or two.

Take care of the imperatives first.

Nodding to the businessman, "Put it here, I'll read it slowly."

He said to Shang again: "Now the emperor's northern tour, it is estimated that it will take a while to come back, now the country's territory has multiplied, many political affairs are cumbersome, your cabinet must take responsibility, Shang Aiqing, as the first assistant of the cabinet, should shoulder the heavy burden, during the period when the emperor returned from the northern tour, the traditional people's livelihood and political affairs, if it is important, the cabinet vote is planned to be sent to the Qianqing Palace for approval, if it is an ordinary matter, the cabinet vote will be directly issued to various departments after the implementation, the Qing family must grasp this degree!"

This is a delegation of power to the cabinet.

Something that can't be helped.

The size of the country is too large, and it is impossible for Zhu Jianji to handle all affairs by himself, and he must let the cabinet also assume its responsibilities as a think tank.

However, in order to prevent the cabinet from becoming bigger, Zhu Jianji will introduce policies in the future.

to check and balance the cabinet.

The reason why the cabinet in the middle and late Ming Dynasty covered the sky with one hand was because the cabinet and the inner servants united and put the Son of Heaven aside.

Shang Zhen is also a smart person.

He knows too well the ambition of the current Guang'an Emperor, such a king, that may make your cabinet autocratic, and the current decentralization is just an expedient measure, and there will definitely be a follow-up strategy of checks and balances in the future.

He immediately said: "Your Majesty, if many political affairs are implemented by the cabinet votes, is there a possibility of giving rise to the corrupt and dictatorial power of the cabinet, and we believe that there should also be a check and balance measure to ensure that cabinet members will not make decisions that harm the country because of their selfish interests and desires."

Zhu Jianji sighed in his heart.

I'm very open-minded, and I know what is important.

There was silence for a while, "What advice does Aiqing have?"

As the head of the cabinet, of course he knew where the life of the cabinet was, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Actually, it's simple, first of all, Weichen, the head of the cabinet, does not have the right to decide, and all chapters and folds need the opinions of all cabinet members to vote."

Zhu Jianji shook his head secretly in his heart, I am still not sincere enough, and said slowly: "This still can't be done, after all, the cabinet members are together every day, what happens to them, and they don't give each other face? Besides, there are so many political affairs, and all cabinet members have to watch them once, which will delay time."

The implication is that I am afraid that your cabinet will form a party for personal gain.

It was also revealed that in the future, the cabinet will have to specialize in a certain matter.

When Shang Tan heard the meaning of Zhu Jianji's words, he felt reasonable.

At the same time, I also heard the meaning of His Majesty's beating.

Shang was helpless, so he had to say: "Then there is only one way, the Metropolitan Procuratorate intervenes, and then all the votes of the cabinet need to be reviewed regularly by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and

Implement accountability."

Zhu Jianji smiled, "Good!"

In addition, I intend to expand the Cabinet and make it a think tank for major political matters in the military and people's livelihood, a department that plans for the future and development of the country according to the current national and world pattern and situation, and at the same time, a department that reviews, examines, judges, and summarizes the existing policies, not just a secretarial department responsible for handling government affairs, in other words, I intend to merge the General Political Department and the Cabinet of Reform. to form a huge department, which is comparable to that of the Seven Divisions."

There have to be enough think tanks.

In this way, in the development of the country, the pros and cons of each step can be weighed concretely.

Shang Shi was dumbfounded.

Can you still play the cabinet like this?

Zhu Jianji said: "I know that the Son of Heaven has always been unwilling to give up power, and he is also wary of the dictatorship of the courtiers, so Taizu canceled the three-province system and strengthened the six ministries, but Taizu later found that he was too tired, so during the Taizong period, a cabinet was established, and the original intention of the establishment of the cabinet was to help the Son of Heaven share government affairs, but I don't think so, the Son of Heaven should be at the helm of the country, as long as he holds the general direction." Then the cabinet department should actually be strengthened, sharing and making decisions on more things."

It is feasible for the Cabinet to continue to be strengthened.

As long as the absolute core power such as the promotion of officials, the transfer of military horses, and the monetary system is in the hands of the imperial power, then the cabinet will only be an executive department, no matter how strong it is.

The state is a machine, and each department has its own function.

The Son of Heaven is the core idea.

That's it.

Zhu Jianji's idea was that in the future, all departments of the court would perform their own duties, and strengthen the role of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, play the role of supervision and punishment, and create a complete set of reasonable political systems.

But to create such a system, the Son of Heaven must decentralize power.

So the first step is to start with the Cabinet.

In fact, there have been signs before, the death penalty on the side of the Criminal Department in the past two years, the Son of Heaven has rarely asked, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are the final review departments.

However, this matter needs to be improved.

In the final analysis, if Zhu Jianji wants to do this, he must first achieve a goal: to strengthen the Metropolitan Procuratorate and establish a complete set of metropolitan inspection systems throughout the country, not just the current one, relying on a few imperial histories of the local metropolitan inspection to supervise.

In other words, Zhu Jianji wants to build a public security system in the Ming Dynasty!

Only under the perfect public security and law system can Zhu Jianji dare to truly delegate power, otherwise the command will give rise to a large number of corruption, and even if it is serious, the imperial power will be hollowed out.

So pilot first.

Let the Cabinet and the Metropolitan Procuratorate work together to see how it works, and if it works, then expand the Cabinet and merge it with the Reform General Political Department to turn these two departments into national development planning departments.