Hearing the news suddenly, the doubts in Ouyang Xiu's heart were overflowing, and he didn't understand why Li Hao suddenly came up with this idea.

Then he asked: "What do you think about the abolition of the third division?" "In fact, Li Hao had thought about the idea of abolishing the three divisions before, but after all, he was in office at that time, and there was naturally no need to dismantle his own platform when he monopolized power.

But now the situation is different, and I need to leave the post of the third secretary, so I will simply dismantle it and leave it to others.

Facing Ouyang Xiu's question, Li Hao replied: "Actually, I have been in the situation of officials for a long time, and the official positions of the main officials, senior officials, and Jilu officials are chaotic and abnormal, resulting in many disadvantages. The official name is inconsistent with the actual functions and powers, the officials at all levels are complicated, check each other, do not match the name, redundant officials and redundant expenses, and exhaust financial resources. Reform of the rule of officials was the first priority of the new policy, but it was only because of the opposition of the hundred officials that it was not implemented. But now that the new policy has been implemented for more than five years, and the foundation has been laid for both the government and the opposition, I think the time has come to reform the rule of officials. Hearing Li Hao's words, Ouyang Xiu closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Li Hao watched from the sidelines, waiting for Ouyang Xiu to make up his mind, after all, without Ouyang Xiu's consent, this matter would definitely not be able to be done now.

In that case, you will have to wait until you become prime minister, and then do it, and I guess you will have to wait a few more years.

However, if this is the case, the successor of the three envoys must be selected, otherwise it is easy to be stolen.

Fortunately, in the end, Ouyang Xiu lived up to Li Hao's trust and asked, "Since you put forward this proposal, I think you have a specific plan, let's hear it!" As soon as Li Hao heard this, he immediately knew that Ouyang Xiu was going to agree, after all, so many years of understanding were not in vain.

So he cleaned up his mood, didn't show too much joy on his face, and explained to Ouyang Xiu: "I think so, merge the functions representing Jilu in the original Jilu official rank with the scattered official rank, become a new Jilu official rank, and abolish the concept of the scattered official rank. The original functions representing the names of the ministry officials in the Jilu official rank were merged with the dispatch to become a new dispatch, and at the same time, the relevant departments were abolished and merged into new functional departments, such as the functions of the three divisions were removed from the household department. Let the official position and dispatch be corresponding, so that it is not only convenient for us to wait, but also clearer in the history books. Lest thousands of years later, future generations see from the history books that my Great Song Dynasty's Hubu Langzhong is not doing things in the household department, but doing Zhizhou in the local area, which is ridiculous. Specifically, it is to restore the duties of the six departments, nine temples and five supervisors, and the parallel institutions may be merged or dismissed, such as the removal of the financial power of the three divisions to the household department, and the power of craftsmanship to the Ministry of Industry; The Taichang Rite Yuan and the Tribute Yuan were dismissed, and their functions and powers were returned to the Ministry of Rites; The Criminal Court and the Picket Criminal Prison Department in Beijing were dismissed, and the power of the criminal prison was returned to the Criminal Department; The three institutions of the West Court, the East Court of Judges, and the Third Class Court were dismissed, and the functions and powers of appointing, dismissing, and examining officials were returned to the Ministry of Officials. After Ouyang Xiu listened, he took a moment in his mind and said: "Oh, listening to your words, it seems that there is no matter of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council, and the other six departments, nine temples and five supervisors have all mentioned it, what about the three provinces?" ”… Li Hao smiled when he heard this, my uncle was joking with me: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the officials of all dynasties have strictly guarded against this. Even if the current official family doesn't account for anything, it is difficult to guarantee that the future official family will not settle accounts after the autumn, even if I don't have to worry about myself, I have to think more about my children. As for the three provinces, I think that they are too cumbersome and easy to interfere with each other, which will affect the speed of issuing edicts and the efficiency of the central organs. After all, according to the process of the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty, all the documents issued in the palace and the petitions and petitions issued in the palace to the Menxia Province and the Zhongshu Province need to be sent to the Shangshu Province, and the Shangshu Province will have six departments, and then the six departments will be handed over to the subordinate departments for review and agreement, check the documents, and trace the source. "And each eucalyptus will be reviewed and agreed with the temple and the supervisor, and the distant will go to the state and county, and wait until everything is clear, and then sort out and return to Shangshu Province.

Shangshu Province will then send it to Zhongshu Province to take the purpose, and let Zhongshu Province transfer it to Menxia Province to repeat

"Draw OK", then

"Rip" ordered to Shangshu Province. Shangshu Province issued six more departments, and finally it could be conveyed to the yamen at all levels, and one thing was dealt with, and the nearest one was a few months, and the distant one was more than a year, how cumbersome.

In the final analysis, I don't have confidence in the efficiency of our Great Song Dynasty officials, it's better to be simpler, and still use the political hall to manage the six departments, nine temples and five supervisors, and preside over the government. After listening to Li Hao's long list of explanations, Ouyang Xiu also laughed and said, "You are indeed more and more secure in doing things, and this reason is becoming more and more high-sounding. Okay, this time I'll do what you wish, and when I go back, I'll submit the whole set of methods, and I'll go and discuss with Prime Minister Fu Da to do it. Seeing that things were in order, Li Hao was happy, and after saying goodbye to Ouyang Xiu, he went back to the house to prepare the paperwork.

This adjustment of official positions did cause some waves in the DPRK and China, but in the face of the reformers led by Ouyang Xiu and Fu Bi, they could not resist it after all.

At the same time as the three divisions were abolished, Li Hao entered the political affairs hall as the governor of the political affairs department, and concurrently served as the secretary of the household department, and continued to control the financial power.

As for the Ministry of Industry, because he took over the workshops and workers at all levels below the Third Division, it involved the R&D and manufacturing of artillery and muskets that Li Hao had expectations.

Therefore, under the intervention of Li Hao, Sheng Hong entered the Ministry of Industry and served as a waiter in the Ministry of Industry, which was the title of doctor from the Sanpin.

It's also a pity that if the official rank of Jilu hadn't been restructured, Sheng Hong would have already become a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu at this time.

Li Hao also felt that why didn't he remember it earlier, otherwise he would have left Dr. Yinqing Guanglu on the three products and made a wish to Sheng Hong.

But it seems that Sheng Hong is quite satisfied now, anyway, it's a third-grade official, the name or something, Sheng Hong said that it's all floating clouds, and he's working hard.

In addition, Shen Tugang is also very happy at this time, this guy also benefited from it, and became the secretary of the ministry, receiving the second rank, you must know that this is the ministry that has withdrawn the real power of personnel appointments, Shen Tugang is very powerful this time.

Of course, Ouyang Xiu still suppressed him a little, and did not let him enter the political hall, otherwise he would have to be higher than Li Hao in terms of official seats.

After all, the Ministry of Officials is the head of the six ministries, and the general civil and military officials are selected and tested, proposed notes and relocation, shadows, and resumption.

… However, Li Hao naturally couldn't review the drawings too easily, so he arranged Sheng Changbai and Yan Jingwen into the Ministry of Officials to serve as the Ministers of the Ministry of Justice, and managed the left selection of Shangshu and the left selection of the waiter respectively.

Although Sheng Changbai was somewhat wronged in terms of official rank, after all, although the official department had great power, the official rank was indeed not high.

But there is no way, the power of the officials is too great, and they have to find people who are strict with themselves to do things, and the temperament of these two people is the most suitable.

As for other positions, this time the reformers also took the lead, and Zeng Gongliang served as the secretary of the military department, and concurrently served as a member of the Privy Council.

Of course, Zeng Gongliang's secretary of the military department is only temporary, and after Fu Bi retires, Zeng Gongliang will take over the post of privy envoy, and the secretary of the military department will choose another person.

In addition, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment are also people who tend to reform, only the Ministry of Rites is conservative, but even so, the Ministry of Rites is also the reformist's own people.

It can be said that the current high-level leaders of the central government can be described as a prosperous dynasty. And the Zheng here is different from the Zheng Ke of the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, at least from the current point of view, these people are capable of doing practical things.

In the next few years, Fu Bi first asked the imperial court to return to his hometown to recuperate due to his physical condition, and after the imperial court tried to save him many times to no avail, he went back to his hometown in Luoyang again.

This time, Fu Bi really couldn't come back to Bianjing, and Luoyang died of illness a year later. Under the participation of Ouyang Xiu, Zhao Zonghan dropped out of the dynasty for three days, personally wrote a memorial text, and posthumously presented the Taiwei with a nickname

"Wenzhong", and deserve to enjoy the temple of Renzong. Then Ouyang Xiu's body gradually failed, so he began to work on letting Li Hao take over.

However, in order to make Ouyang Xiu more beautiful, coupled with so many years of painstaking management, the treasury is very full of money and food, and he can let go and do some big things.

So Li Hao personally took the Pingxia plan to Ouyang Xiu's mansion and explained it to him one by one. When Ouyang Xiu heard this plan, although he was well-informed, he was still taken aback.

After all, since the reign of Renzong, there has been no large-scale war between the Great Song Dynasty and the outside world, and Li Hao has not expressed his belligerent heart in the past, why did he suddenly come to this now.

Ouyang Xiu asked: "Why did you suddenly remember this, I have been in the Song Dynasty for a long time, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and they look thriving, how can they start a war lightly, if they lose, won't it ruin my efforts over the years." Faced with Ouyang Xiu's question, Li Hao replied: "It is precisely because the country is rich and the people are strong now that it is even more important to eradicate the enemy at this time and plan for future generations." A generation has to do a generational thing, after all, none of us can guarantee what will happen to our successors. If we don't take advantage of the ability to do it now, when the imperial court declines in the future, those foreign enemies we left behind will in turn endanger the Great Song Dynasty. But no matter what Li Hao said, Ouyang Xiu still couldn't make up his mind.

But this is normal, after all, throughout Ouyang Xiu's life, although he has been a privy envoy for several years, he has never presided over military affairs, so it is a little difficult for him to make this determination.

In fact, it would be the same to wait for Li Hao to take over the political affairs hall, and now Li Hao mentioned it only because he was sure of victory, thinking of giving Ouyang Xiu a big gift.

… If he can recover his homeland and destroy Western Xia under Ouyang Xiu's appointment, what a glory it will be. As for why the goal is to destroy Xia, not Liao, and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it is naturally because this life has to be left to oneself.

So in the face of Ouyang Xiu's hesitation, Li Hao said: "Uncle, don't worry, since I came to you to make this proposal, then I naturally have the certainty of victory, you go to a place with me, and after reading it, you will understand." Ouyang Xiu thought to himself, it's okay to go and see, and see what is it that gives Li Hao such confidence.

Anyway, if he can't satisfy himself, then he will definitely not agree, and even have to persuade Li Hao, telling him not to start a war lightly.

With Ouyang Xiu accompanying Li Hao out of Bianjing City, he traveled all the way to the west. Originally, Ouyang Xiu thought that he was going to the camp in the western suburbs, but in the end, he saw that the direction was different.

In the end, Ouyang Xiu found that he seemed to have come to a newly built martial arts arena, but the strange thing was that not far behind this martial arts arena, there were a few lonely city gates, and he didn't know what it was for.

On the martial arts field, a group of people found Li Hao and them coming in and hurriedly greeted them. After walking in, Ouyang Xiu saw that there were generals such as Gu Tingye and Yang Wenyuan, and he also saw Zeng Gongliang, the privy envoy.

After Ouyang Xiu got out of the car and said hello to Gu Tingye, he asked Zeng Gongliang: "What's going on, could it be that Li Hao has already told you what he thinks." Zeng Gongliang hurriedly replied: "I also came to tell Li Shangshu yesterday and only learned the news, I wanted to go and tell you at that time, but Li Hao said that I would tell you in person today, so I didn't pass the word." As for this, as for me, it was a newly built martial arts arena two years ago, which was said to be used to experiment with new weapons. But I really don't know what it's for today, I just said that I came to see the magic weapon to win. Li Hao also helped Zeng Gongliang explain at this time: "That's true, I asked him to help hide it, anyway, it's just a day's work." After all, it will take time for me to equip this secret weapon, and if I had said it in advance, I wouldn't have made you sleepless at night. Seeing Li Hao teasing himself, Ouyang Xiu replied: "Okay, if your secret weapon can't satisfy me, see how I clean you up." Li Hao replied: "Don't worry, you definitely don't have this opportunity." After talking to Ouyang Xiu, Li Hao turned his head to Gu Tingye and said, "Since the audience is all here, let them start." But you have heard what you have just said, and if they drop the chain and make me ugly, I will have good fruit for them to eat. Gu Tingye smiled when he heard this: "Don't worry, I've practiced I don't know how many times, if I can still make mistakes, I will be the first to ask for punishment." After getting Li Hao's consent, Gu Tingye rushed down to prepare.

Li Hao accompanied Ouyang Xiu to the stage and asked him to watch the next performance. Zeng Gongliang and several generals who didn't have to appear also followed Li Hao and went to the stage.

It's just that except for Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang, everyone else has seen the drill, so their mentality is still relatively peaceful.

… While everyone was waiting, they only heard a thunderous sound from both sides of the martial arts arena, which seemed to be galloping thousands of horses, but it was extremely neat, and the ground seemed to shake slightly.

Seeing these many situations, Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang looked at Li Hao with questions on their faces, signaling to ask what the situation was.

Li Hao hurriedly said: "You will know if you look at it." The two of them withdrew their gaze and looked at each other, as if they wanted to see through the wall what was coming from the sound.

I saw that the sound was getting closer and closer, getting louder and louder, and when it reached a climax, Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang finally saw that it was the sound of soldiers stepping out in unison.

If you want to talk about walking in unison, when Li Hao led the imperial camp army, he also did it, and Ouyang Xiu had also seen it at that time.

But at that time, the number of Li Hao's subordinates was small, and the training time was not long enough, so although the effect was also a little amazing, compared with today's scene, it was really a small thing.

Present were 10,000 soldiers who Gu Tingye had carefully trained for three years, of course, it was not that they had only practiced 10,000 people in three years, but the venue was limited, and they really couldn't let go of too many people to perform.

Although Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang have never experienced the battle formation, they are always people who have been privy envoys, and they are no strangers to the camp in the western suburbs.

Therefore, when you see the spirit of these soldiers in front of you, you can tell at a glance that these are more elite soldiers than the four armies.

Subsequently, under the command of Gu Tingye, the corporals and soldiers in the stage conducted weapons and battle formation drills in batches, which shocked Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang's hearts.

After reading it, Ouyang Xiu said to Li Hao: "This is the winning weapon you said, it is indeed usable, but how many elite soldiers are there?" Li Hao replied: "Over the years, Gu Tingye and their efforts have been exhausted, and with the addition of water like silver from the household department, a total of 60,000 horses have only been trained!" Ouyang Xiu heard this and said: "It's not enough, these soldiers and horses may indeed be elite and brave warriors, and they can be ten with one, but if you want to destroy Xia in one fell swoop, this is not enough." Facing Ouyang Xiu's questioning, Li Hao smiled: "I naturally know this, this is not my killer feature." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for Gu Tingye to continue the next step of the exercise.

Ouyang Xiu saw that Li Hao still had tricks, so he continued to wait to see if there was really a surprise. And what appeared later really made Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gongliang shine in front of their eyes, and they made up their minds to support the start of the battle to destroy Xia.

Because what appeared later was under the guidance and improvement of Li Hao, and there have been countless generations of artillery and muskets that have been iterated.

Li Hao didn't explain much to Ouyang Xiu about the specific power, but when they saw the dilapidated city wall that was bombed with their own eyes, there was no need to say much.