The young man's clear voice made the figures of the old dragon bells in the hall all shocked.

The simple and heavy palace room was also inexplicably softened by this rare vitality.

Everyone;

Including courtiers, hundreds of officials, meritorious marquis and nobles, and county officials who came from all over the world;

Liu She, Chao Cuo and other Jiuqing, Zhou Yafu, Tao Qing two three dukes;

- and even the Son of Heaven!

Everyone sat up straight with full attention, and cast their scrutinizing eyes on the lonely young man.

Childe Sheng, what kind of person is he?

On an occasion like today, what would Childe Sheng, say?

What kind of starting point will you start your own ······

"Erchen believes that the failure of the victims and displaced people in the Kanto region to be properly resettled is not the fault of the clan princes;"

"—but those officials who were appointed by the princes of the clan, but were unable to perform their duties, causing the princes and the people to be hungry and displaced, served as the county state of 2,000 stone with peace of mind, but the corpses were vegetarian, and the flies were camped and the dogs were struggling!"

Rumble!!!

As soon as Liu Sheng said a word, hundreds of meritorious princes and nobles, ministers and hundreds of officials in the Xuanshu Palace, and even local county and county officials were all stunned in shock!

Even Tianzi Qi on the royal couch, looking at Liu Sheng, who still had some encouragement, also flashed a trace of astonishment.

- Princes and officials?

——After Liu Sheng decided to become the crown prince, the first political signal he sent was to attack the princes and officials?

Obedient to the meaning of the words, he is still a high-ranking official at the level of 2,000 stones???

"Childe Sheng, what do you want to do?"

"Grace clan princes?!"

"—not impossible."

"-After all, the kings of the Kanto region that His Majesty has sealed are all the brothers of Gongzi Sheng······"

Guessing Liu Sheng's intentions with their hearts, everyone looked at Liu Sheng's gaze and couldn't help but become more and more solemn.

Because of the keen sense of smell cultivated by the ups and downs of the sea for many years, I told everyone present: This matter will never be so simple!

Liu Sheng took the princes and officials as the starting point, and it was absolutely impossible for him to use this to excuse his elder brothers who had gone to Kanto······

"Oh?"

"This view is quite novel."

"- There is a problem in the vassal states, not the fault of the princes and kings, but the officials of the vassal states who have not fulfilled their duties well?"

"Where do you start?"

After a short period of losing consciousness, the Son of Heaven finally took the lead in relieving himself from his stunnedness.

looked at Liu Sheng's gaze, from Liu Sheng's expectations and concerns before he opened his mouth, to Liu Sheng's momentary stunned after he spoke;

By the time he said this sentence 'where to start', those deep eyes could no longer let people see through what Tianzi Qi was thinking at this time.

And Liu Sheng's next answer, while also solving the doubts in everyone's hearts, deeply engraved an extremely distinct image of a quasi-prince in the hearts of everyone in the palace······

"Father."

"The retainers have heard that if the people are not well governed, it is a dereliction of duty on the part of the officials;"

"Sending such officials to govern the place is a failure of the court."

"So in the past, whenever a local official made a mistake and the people under his rule suffered misfortune, the court would not only hold the official accountable, but also the recommender and examiner responsible."

"It is precisely because of this practice that the court duke with more than 2,000 stones will be very cautious in recommending officials, and the court will also examine officials very seriously."

"The court's cautious recommendation and the court's careful review ensured that these recommended officials would not do anything to harm the people when they were sent to perform their duties in local counties."

"—Because of careful recommendation and careful review, it is possible to screen out candidates who are not worthy of the name;"

"These recommended officials will also govern the local people with their hearts in order not to disappoint and not implicate their benefactors."

The calm tone of the words caused everyone in the hall to nod slightly, and they were afraid of missing any details, so they cast their more and more focused eyes on Liu Sheng's figure again.

Seeing Liu Sheng's words, he pondered for a moment before continuing: "However, the officials of the Kwantung clan vassal states are not among them. ”

"——The county and county magistrates appointed by the Chang'an court need to be recommended and reviewed by the imperial historians;"

"If it is an important appointment, it will even be questioned by my father in person."

"But the officials of the Kanto Prefecture do not need to be recommended or guaranteed, nor will they be subject to any scrutiny or questioning;"

"As long as you can please the princes and kings, you are likely to become the princes of two thousand stones, the real two thousand stones, and even the princes and princes and princesses because of the words of the princes and princes!"

Speaking of this, Liu Sheng's peaceful tone only suddenly changed, and between his eyebrows, he also brought a solemn look that did not match his age at all!

And everyone in the hall finally understood what Liu Sheng wanted to do······

"The officials of the vassal states do not need to recommend, examine, or consult, but only need to please the princes and kings;"

"And when the princes of the clan were crowned kings, most of them were young and ignorant, and they were easily deceived by others."

"——Last year, after the Wu Chu Rebellion was pacified, King Liang, who had originally made great contributions to Sheji, praised Yang Sheng and Gongsun Wei for such reasons."

"But in the end, under the bewitchment of these two thieves, King Liang actually sent an assassin to assassinate Jiuqing in Chang'an, at the foot of the imperial city!"

As he spoke, he saw Liu Sheng turning sideways with a solemn expression, looking around at the eyes of everyone in the hall, and even more inexplicably with a little sadness.

"Ladies and gentlemen;"

"-King Liang, but the strong king who is over thirty years old?"

"It's the first emperor's own flesh and blood, and it's the heir of the first emperor who personally sealed it and guarded the gate of Guanzhong for my Han family?"

"It's the brother and sibling of my father, the emperor and my mother, and the humerus arm that is trusted in every way???"

···

"Even King Liang, who is trusted by the Queen Mother and his father, and is over thirty years old, will assassinate Jiuqing on the street because of the bewitchment of thieves like Yang Sheng and Gongsun Wei;"

"What's more, what about the princes and vassal kings of the Qi and Huainan families who succeeded to the throne at a young age and never knew what they were responsible for and what they were to govern the country?"

"——The thief who can bewitch even the king of Liang, can't he bewitch the vassal kings of the Qi and Huainan families who succeeded to the throne at a young age, and who have no father by his side to teach since he was a child, and can only learn the 'way of governing the country' in the arms of a woman?"

"And thieves like Gongsun Wei and Yang Sheng, looking at the world, how many are there?"

"How many vassal kings like the Qi and Huainan clans who don't know right from wrong and are easily bewitched by others······"

With Liu Sheng's increasingly low and mournful tone, the courtiers and officials in the palace couldn't help but fall into contemplation.

But obviously, these people's attention is not thinking about whether Liu Sheng's words make sense.

Clan relatives and princes, it is easy to be bewitched by others?

At first glance, there is really nothing wrong with it.

But when you think about it, it's.

——Looking at the world, who is not easy to be deceived by people who have money and leisure like princes and kings?

Not to mention the princes and princes who sit on the land of a country, but basically have no responsibilities or missions;

At this moment, the hundreds of people gathered in the hall, in their respective families, there are always a few people who are instigated by anyone to make trouble everywhere.

To put it bluntly, anyone who is so idle that they have no pain, and who have to do something to bring comfort to their empty life can be generalized as: people who are easily seduced by others.

There are many such people.

There are clan relatives and princes, and there are meritorious princes;

There are relatives of Xunqing and children of official eunuchs.

It is not appropriate to define the entire group of clan relatives and princes solely as 'easily bewitched', and it is certainly not Liu Sheng's real purpose.

What everyone is thinking about is the political tendency revealed by Liu Sheng's words.

——Today, it is the first time that Liu Sheng, the 'quasi-prince', has expressed his views on court discussions and state affairs!

If nothing else, Liu Sheng will be appointed as the crown prince in the future and inherit the throne one day, every word Liu Sheng says today will become the focus of careful taste and study inside and outside the government and the opposition.

Because this is Liu Sheng's first 'voice' in the Han family politics;

Just like when the first emperor was the crown prince Liu Qiyi stoned to death Liu Xian, the crown prince of Wu, and since then he has started his own road of cutting the domain, Liu Sheng's attitude today is likely to be the core of the work of the Chang'an court in Liu Sheng's dynasty in the future.

Judging from the current situation: Liu Sheng, the fourteen-year-old quasi-prince, has rapidly grown into a qualified political figure.

Because today, Liu Sheng has told the Han family monarchs and ministers in a grand manner: Cutting the feudal domain is still the primary policy of my Han family;

In order to continue to cut the feudal domain, a 'bewitched' hat can still be buckled on the heads of the clan princes and vassal kings······

"Childe, can you put it more bluntly?"

"Uh, the minister is old, and he doesn't seem to understand what Childe means······"

In the silence, a hoarse whisper sounded, only to provoke Liu Sheng to turn sideways slightly.

grinned a little at the old man who spoke, and finally turned around;

solemnly tidy up the clothes, and then bow down to the Son of Heaven.

"Erchen wins, respectfully!"

"Erchen believes that the princes of the clan, whether they raised troops in the past or now, let the people under their rule be displaced, it is because the princes of the clan have no ability to govern the country and distinguish between right and wrong!"

"My Han family divided the clan princes, originally hoping that these clan relatives could govern the Kanto region for the Chang'an court to relieve the pressure on the court."

"—But most of the clan princes of the Qi and Huainan clans lost their fathers at a young age and were not well taught;"

"And most of the sons who were sent to Guanzhong by my father and emperor are also young and vassal, and there is nothing to do."

···

"Princes and vassal kings are easily deceived by others, and they are easy to make mistakes;"

"If you don't have the ability to govern the country, you can only hand over the affairs of the country to the officials of the vassal states."

"But the power to appoint officials in the vassal states is in the hands of these princes who are easily deceived and incapable of governing the country."

"—Erchen thinks that this is not right."

"Since now, most of the princes and kings of my Han family have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong and govern the country, then they should not continue to allow the princes and kings to appoint two thousand stones of the county on their own!"

"Instead, it should be up to the court and the emperor to help these young and ignorant princes and kings and assign them officials."

"These appointed officials should go through the procedures of recommendation, examination, and questioning in accordance with the standards of the court, and after being formally appointed by the court, they should go to the vassal states to perform their duties."

"The salaries of these officials should be distributed by the court;"

"These officials should go to Chang'an every three years, just like the local counties and counties, to participate in the big plan."

"The review and verification of these officials should be consistent with the standards of local county and court officials."

···

"In this way, the vassal states, with the help of the court, can get qualified officials;"

"These officials are appointed by the court, and they will no longer bewitch the young princes and kings."

"With these qualified officials, even if the princes and kings do not have the ability to govern the country, they can still keep the vassal states running."

"And by the side of such qualified officials, no matter how stupid the princes and kings are, one day, they will be able to learn the true way of governing the country······"

sprinkled hundreds of words of long speech, Liu Sheng inevitably had a dry mouth;

But after saying these words, Liu Sheng's face did not show the slightest tiredness.

Hold your chest high and your head up;

The eyes were blazing, staring straight at the royal couch, and the Son of Heaven who had squinted the corners of his eyes;

The dry lips and itchy throat did not weaken the firmness on Liu Sheng's face in the slightest.

Behind and on Liu Sheng's side, hundreds of figures in different clothes fell into a long period of thought······

"Childe wins ······"

"You want to take the throne?"

"—seems to be ······"

"——It is still the right to appoint and dismiss officials······

···

"It's not all!"

"The right to appoint and dismiss officials is equal to financial power and military power!"

"—yes;"

"- Childe wins, is to seize power·····"

"—to take away all the rights of the vassal kings······"

Quiet.

There was a long silence.

After Liu Sheng's tirade, the entire Xuanshu Hall fell into a long silence.

Everyone in the temple bowed their heads;

Almost everyone frowned.

No one continued to set their eyes on Liu Sheng;

But what everyone thinks in their hearts is Liu Sheng's words.

Liu Sheng, to seize power.

To be precise, it is recommended that the Son of Heaven and the Chang'an court be advised to cut the royal power of the princes.

Take the 'incompetence of the princes' as the starting point, start with the right to appoint and dismiss officials, and cut all the power of the princes and kings in one fell swoop!

- Officials cannot be appointed or dismissed, and the princes and kings will not be able to control the feudal kingdom from now on;

- The inability to appoint and dismiss the young government and the minister of state means that the princes and kings lose their financial power;

- The inability to appoint and dismiss lieutenants and guards means that the princes and kings will also lose their military power.

And these rights, according to Liu Sheng's statement that 'the court appoints officials and directly distributes the money', will all be collected into the center of the court······

Hiss~~~~~

Call~~~~~~~~~

Realizing Liu Sheng's true purpose, everyone in the hall took a deep breath without exception;

Then spit it out with mixed tastes.

"Childe wins ······"

"It's a big picture······

"-I'm afraid, this is what His Majesty wants to do?"

"-It's just that Gongzi Sheng, he said it for His Majesty······"

Each raised his head with a heart, and glanced at the lonely figure for the last time, the immature face that was still green;

Eventually, everyone took a deep breath and sat up straight again.

At the same time, on the couch, the Son of Heaven, who had returned to God from his 'thoughts', finally got up from the couch.

As soon as he opened his mouth, the gloomy atmosphere in the hall was led to an increasingly strange direction.

"Hey!"

"Silly boy!"

He shook his head with a sneer, pointed his finger at Liu Sheng again, and nodded lightly, and saw that Tianzi Qi turned sideways casually, smiled and waved his hand to everyone in the hall.

"It's just a child's nonsense, my lords, just listen to a joke."

"——Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh;"

"For such an important event, you can't just jump to conclusions with such a slap in your head~"

"Let's go down."

As he spoke, Tianzi Qi smiled and waved his hand;

And Liu Sheng, who also turned sideways with no different color, retreated to his seat, and then sat down with Shi Shiran.

From beginning to end, Liu Sheng did not show the slightest look of shame and depression;

There is no justification for Tianziqi's words such as 'children' and 'nonsense'.

Just kneeling in front of the desk, looking straight ahead without squinting, as if he didn't notice at all that at this moment, there were hundreds of eyes on him from all directions.

couldn't see anything from Liu Sheng, so everyone naturally saw their eyes and scattered their eyes to Tianzi Qi in front of the royal couch.

And Tianzi Qi's next words made everyone in the hall stand up a little inexplicably······

"This stupid boy has been anxious since he was a child."

"—Look at today, let him say a few words, this will be to deprive the princes of the clan and the power to appoint and dismiss the officials of the country;"

"If it's his turn to decide these things in the future, I don't know what kind of mess he is going to make······"

Speaking jokingly, Tianzi Qi turned his head slightly and looked at Liu Sheng, who was kneeling on the side of the hall.

"When you go back, read more books;"

"Ask Wei Qihou for more advice, don't think about fighting, killing, cutting this and cutting that all day long."

"-Be patient~"

"I also want to listen to the advice of the courtiers~~~"

Hearing this, Liu Sheng got up with a look and said goodbye to the Son of Heaven.

"Father's teachings, sons, keep them in mind."

saw the Son of Heaven Qiwen nodding with a smile, and saw Liu Sheng sit back again;

looked at the crown prince and Fu Douying on the other side, and explained a few words like 'teach this kid well', and the Son of Heaven finally turned around again.

With a height of more than eight feet, standing between the imperial couch and the imperial case, the lining of the Son of Heaven is extraordinarily tall;

The gentle smile hung on that inexplicable palpitating face, and there was no disobedience at all.

The deep eyes make people unable to see any known emotions, but they also make people feel that they will be seen through by these eyes from the inside out.

The thick, well-cut beard finally parted a gap horizontally, and a low and powerful inquiry was transmitted to every corner of the hall······

"Do you have any suggestions for this matter, my lords?"

Two more finishes.

Tomorrow I will try to make three changes, and I ask you to continue to support you.

Good night, Father.

(End of chapter)