The death of the prime minister was very sudden, and the sudden court did not have time to react. And this time was a critical period for the reform of the imperial court.

How easily can destiny be reversed?

Chao Cuo's method of carrying out reform seems to have made the cadres full of vitality, and it seems that they have already overcome the difficulties and begun to rise again.

But in fact, this is not the case, except for the final division of the feudal and development of the aristocracy, the other parts of the reform are basically to rectify the rule of officials and crack down on corruption.

The system of pioneering aristocracy has not yet been perfected, and although it has temporarily solved the problem of a large number of cadres and a narrow land, it will also cause the development of aristocracy to be too big to lose.

Originally, Chao Cuo was going to wait for these pioneering nobles to grow stronger before continuing to promote reforms, but now there is no chance.

In just two years, the two main figures who presided over the promotion of the reform passed away, which also greatly damaged the strength of the reform reformers in the court.

Chao Cuo's funeral was held very solemnly, and after Chao Cuo's departure, there was no second reformer in the Daqian court who could have such ability.

There may be a few ministers with good ability, but they are only 'cadres' and 'capable ministers', and they don't have the courage to treat death as if they were at home and dare to be the first in the world.

After all, there are only two kinds of fate for those who change the law, one is success and retreats, the other is failure and disrepute, and of course, the other is to kill themselves after success.

It's just that since the founding of the Wang family, no emperor has ever done this. The moral bottom line of the royal family is unexpectedly high, and they have not done anything to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and the bird has hidden the bow.

Reform and innovation are almost the enemies of the world's nobles, official eunuchs, and heroes, and not everyone is willing to do it.

Wang Cheng promoted several officials and began to replace the previous ones. In the absence of Chao Cuo's help to implement the reform, Wang Cheng began to take up the burden of the reform and personally presided over the promotion of the reform.

Wang Cheng once again strengthened the rights of the embroidered envoys, and at the same time increased the number of embroidered envoys, carried out stricter monitoring of the world, and increased the number of inspections of the imperial history, wanting to implement the reform with more stringent censorship.

Because there is no suitable candidate for prime minister, Wang Cheng is also worried that after appointing a new prime minister, he is not willing to fully implement the reform, and it will be even more troublesome when the time comes.

The prime minister is the first high-ranking official in Daqian, and half of the decrees of the imperial court need to be handled by the prime minister.

Therefore, once the prime minister does not support the change, the suffering faced by Wang Cheng will increase exponentially, and the position of prime minister will be temporarily vacant until he finds someone with like-minded and outstanding talents.

However, without the prime minister's help to deal with things, the situation that Wang Cheng needs to face will become very difficult.

Fortunately, there was an internal minister and a deputy minister, and with the help of the two, Wang Cheng began to smoothly handle government affairs and implement reforms.

In the court of the Great Qian, originally seeing the first emperor and the prime minister collapse in just two years, the nobles and heroes in these countries still had some expectations, thinking that the change could be interrupted.

As a result, I didn't expect the royal family's determination to change the law so great.

Of course, the determination of the royal family is very great, because the royal family knows very well that if the Great Dry collapses, the first unlucky person will be their Wang family, just like the collapse of Yin Shang back then.

Chao Cuo has passed, and the power organs of the great cadres need to be adjusted, and under the coercion of countless situations, he needs to first stabilize the government and sort out the context. Wang Cheng's talent was also not outstanding, but with the help of many talents from the royal family, he quickly regained control of the imperial court.

Next, Wang Cheng began to adjust the law change and continued to implement the law change. really started to implement the law change, Wang Cheng finally understood how difficult it was.

In many cases, there are already inscriptions on it, but the people at the grassroots level do not know about it. The court asked the local officials to publicize the new decree, and the local officials copied the decree and sent someone to read it.

Some people deliberately write the decree with a brilliant style and flowers, but they are a brush-off on key things. The people heard it in the rain and in the fog.

This kind of decree is not to mention the people, and even the officials themselves cannot understand it. How can the New Deal be implemented in this way?

Because there is no Prime Minister Zuo, most of the recitals in the court have to be approved by him personally, plus the various copywriting and annotations left by Chao Cuo, even with the help of the royal family, Wang Cheng has to fight every day.

Since he succeeded to the throne, Wang Cheng has had a sense of urgency, he is no longer young, and he doesn't want to leave the matter of changing the law to his children to implement.

Therefore, Wang Cheng would deal with government affairs until late at night every day, and during the day, he also needed the ministers of the court to discuss government affairs.

Originally, Wang Cheng felt that time was pressing, but the notes sent by the officials below were full of flowers, sprinkled with thousands of words, or praise for the emperor and Daqian, or some other things, but there were only a few really useful things.

Wang Cheng would read patiently at first, but after a while, he found that a lot of his time was wasted on these songs.

Therefore, Wang Cheng issued an edict that all the notes should be concise and clear, prohibiting nonsense, and prohibiting the use of flowery, large and empty articles. If a mistake is made, a reprimand and correction will be ordered directly.

In addition, there were restrictions on the paper used by court officials to write their songs. The paper used by the court officials to write the music was of high quality, and each knife was sold for one imperial silver coin.

Thousands of officials across the country use the song, and the paper needed for a year is a huge amount, plus various official documents, the court uses a lot of paper. A large part of this is wasted, and Wang Cheng ordered that the number of official papers should be set according to the level of the official document every year.

After the set amount is exceeded, the paper needs to be purchased by itself.

After Wang Cheng's strict orders, this trend was stopped, and from then on, the official documents and recitals of the court officials should be concise and clear.

Wang Cheng dealt with the government affairs, and was guided by Chao for a period of time, and he knew very well what tricks those people played, these people deliberately let Wang Cheng deal with so many tricks, if he couldn't hold on, he would naturally appoint the prime minister.

What's more, if they are tired of handling government affairs because of this, slack off government affairs, and hand over these things to the prime minister to dispose of, it will be more in line with their preferences.

The clique of officials would be able to gain the right to embezzle the emperor's rights through such acts.

On the other hand, if the emperor issued an edict for officials to write simply and clearly, they would go to the other extreme, writing extremely concisely, and almost every sentence had to be carefully considered. This is another kind of 'doubling' of officials.

Deliberately double the execution of your orders, in real history, Zhu Hongwu has encountered this situation.

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