"The old minister is here to congratulate Your Majesty first. Back then, the demon woman eunuch seized power and wantonly slaughtered the sons of the God Emperor, and the emperor was in danger of being relocated, and now Wenmei is pregnant, which is indeed a good thing that can appease the people. ”

Although Dayu is arrogant, but there is a lesson from the past of the holy queen, the harem concubines can not make friends with the minister at will, Wen Meiren retreated to the back to rest after seeing Han Gang father and son, and only Han Gang and father and son were left in the palace.

"If you have a son, you must find a girl from Han Xiang's house and marry this kid. If you have a daughter, then you will marry the son of the Ministry of Works. ”

Li Xu was in a good mood and winked at Han Rui. The emperor has long known that this second son of Han is a fake Taoist, and his mouth reads, "Only women and villains are difficult to raise." ", giving birth to a baby has never stopped, and it seems that she is a woman who is close to and difficult to raise on weekdays.

"Your Majesty is in love. Han Rui was naturally overjoyed.

Now the emperor is obviously the only one in the Jiaofang, and if the Wen Meiren gives birth to a man, it is the eldest son of the emperor and the son-in-law of Hanmen. If she gives birth to a daughter, she is the eldest princess, the daughter-in-law of the Han family, and it shows that our Longyou Han family is the first family today.

Han Gang stared at the second son with a happy face, and sighed in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

"Pei Xiang has made up his mind, and I feel very uncomfortable. Li Xu looked at Han Gang: "Han Xiang is already high, and the center still needs some helpers......

Han Gang smiled when he heard this, he knew that this time the drama had finally arrived.

"The old minister has drafted a statement, and it has not yet been played. Han Gang took out a book from the cuffs of his official robe, and the eunuch standing beside him took it and handed it to the emperor.

"Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu made Li Jifu and Zhedong Observation make Lu Zhen both enter the court. Han Gang looked at the emperor there and flipped through the recital and said slowly: "Lu Xiang was originally framed by the Wen Party, and as for Li Jifu, the envoy of the Jiannan Xichuan Festival, he was also the old minister of the God Emperor Jianba. ”

Han Gang is best at taking advantage of the situation, and now that Li Jifu and Lu Zhen are returning to the dynasty, how can Han Xiang, a first-class pasteur in the world, be that wicked person?

"Lu Xiang left from the position of Zhongshu Shilang, and when he came back, he should be promoted up one level, and the old minister thought that it was appropriate to serve as a subordinate servant. Li Jifu is skilled in government affairs and full of opportunities, so he happened to go to Shangshu Province to take Pei Xiang's class first. ”

Li Xu nodded, Han Gang's attitude has been prepared for a long time, this Han Xiang has always been a master of Taijiquan, just like a cotton ball that can't be broken, you just use a thousand catties of strength, he can also rely on a soft strength to come back.

"The position of Shangshu's left servant is still left for Pei Xiang. Li Xu looked at Han Gang: "Li Jifu is back, and I am going to make him a privy envoy." ”

Han Rui looked at the emperor excitedly, and Han Gang's originally dull eyes on the other side suddenly sharpened.

Since the establishment of the Privy Council, it has been an important department in charge of the transfer of forbidden troops and the appointment and dismissal of officers, and the already small powers and responsibilities of the military department of Shangshu Province have been usurped a lot.

This position has always been the private reserve of the eunuchs, because compared with outsiders such as ministers, eunuchs and domestic slaves are more worthy of the trust of the Son of Heaven. The reason why Yu Fuguo and Cheng Qili's generation were able to abolish the Son of Heaven and control the imperial court was fundamentally because they had mastered military power.

Now that the emperor is ready to let civil officials take this position, it is undoubtedly regarded as suppressing eunuchs, and the civil servants are sitting back and enjoying the success.

"Since the minister is the privy councillor. Han Gang glanced at the eunuchs waiting in the hall, their faces were all expressions of Gu Jing Bubo, I don't know if they already knew such news in advance, or if they were very good at cultivating qi. "So what grade?"

"It's just a dispatch, Li Jifu used the military department Shangshu as the privy envoy, and the privy deputy envoy was temporarily served by Li Congxian, the general of the Shence Army, and selected capable ministers to enrich the departments of the Privy Council. ”

Han Gang nodded, only the dispatch has no own position, this privy council is still a person with the emperor's credibility in terms of structure, but it used to be eunuchs in the past, and then it was used to be close, all in all, it was still a difficult place to meddle.

"Lu Zhen returned to the court to serve as a servant, and the observation envoy of eastern Zhejiang was vacant, so that Liu Shangshu of the military department was appointed as the observer envoy of eastern Zhejiang, and Li Jifu was appointed as the secretary of the military department, and the prince was added to Shaobao. ”

In the Dayu system, the young master of the prince, the young master of the prince, and the young master of the prince are all added officials, and they are theoretically the teachers of the prince, but in fact they have no power and responsibility, because the rank is noble, and it is a kind of additional official that the imperial court rewards the minister.

Li Jifu has always stood firmly next to the emperor in the line, and the Victorian matter has been handled appropriately, and it is also appropriate to give him an official.

The emperor was originally going to make Li Jifu the right servant of Shangshu, but he later changed his mind.

Now that the government and the opposition are all figures of the Han Party, it has no other effect to let Li Jifu be the right servant of Shangshu, either by the Han Party, or to fight with Han Gang, otherwise he will be a follower of the side drum like Pei Du.

"In this attack on Tibet, the Ministry of Industry has made great contributions. Li Xu pointed at Han Rui and said to Han Gang: "I am going to revoke the positions of Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu Envoy and Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu Envoy, and set up Jiannan Dao Governor Envoy, which will be appointed by the Ministry of Industry. ”

Han Gang frowned when he heard this: "The old minister thinks this matter is inappropriate. ”

"Why did Ling Gong say this?"

"Shu is not better than others, Shu is surrounded by mountains, naturally isolated from the Central Plains, the difficulty of Shu Road does not need to be repeated. Han Gang looked at the emperor: "The land of Bashu, the country of abundance, fertile fields for thousands of miles, rich in industry and commerce, has always been the wealth of the imperial court." Moreover, it is close to Nanzhao and Tibet, and it is restless, which is the place where soldiers are used. ”

After Han Gang introduced Jiannan's situation, he continued: "Jiedu makes it a hundred ends, and it is convenient to deal with it on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the power and responsibility are extremely heavy. The imperial court divided Jiannan Road into east and west rivers, in order to prevent the autobiography of Weifu from being autobiography due to moderation, and the tail was too big to fall. Now merging the two into one is really violating the principle of the big and the small, and once it is used by a non-human, it will be a disaster. ”

"What Han Xiang said is very true, I also have such considerations, but as Han Xiang said, the land of Jiannan involves a lot, if the two rivers are divided to check and balance each other, the soldiers of Dongchuan cannot control the Kou of Xichuan, and the grain of Xichuan cannot solve the famine of Dongchuan, which is not a good thing. Therefore, I have an idea, don't set up envoys to make them powerful. Li Xu explained.

"In fact, our dynasty also has a law of decentralization, and under the Jiedu Envoy, another observation envoy and regimental training envoy are set up, but after all, it is still the power from above, and after all, they will be reduced to ministers under the Jiedu Envoy. ”

"Jiannan is combined, then all state and county officials, the festival degree is not allowed to fall at will, even if it is not compatible to be dismissed, it also needs to be played by the Ming court, by the Ministry of Officials, by the three provinces to review. "Li Xu first took the personnel power of the Jiedu envoy to his subordinates.

"Jiannan also has to set up a point of criminal prison envoys, served by the imperial court Jian Ba cadres, in charge of all criminal prison affairs in Jiannan, in each state and county of the prison officers, by the imperial court to send people to take charge of the prison matters, the death penalty and exile and other punishments are still reviewed by the criminal department and Dali Temple. ”

"Jiannan Jiedu envoy set up another soldier and horse envoy and degree support envoy, soldiers and horses to take charge of all the troops in Jiannan training is substantial, commanded by the Jiedu envoy, the degree of the envoy is in charge of the Jiannan treasury, how much into the warehouse, how much into Beijing, only subject to the order of the three provinces, the festival envoy shall not intervene. ”

Han Gang was silent.

After such a rectification, is it still a festival?

"Your Majesty, in this way, isn't it just the establishment of another three provinces in Jiannan Province? I don't know how many more officials will be added. Han Rui was very serious.

After all, he is also a dignified Fengxiang Festival Envoy, although there are rumors in the DPRK that most of the Jiedu envoys in the Guanzhong region will be abolished, but how can the Prime Minister's son and the close ministers of the Son of Heaven be comparable to those Qiu Ba, and the new and larger administrative divisions formed after the abolition, how can there be a piece of the second prince of Han.

"Officials are not afraid of many, as long as they can get things done. Li Xu made a comparison, Dayu's system is actually not advanced, with a strong color of the previous generation.

Dayu's system inherited the previous Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Dynasty system originally evolved from the local power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. However, Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, who built the Sui Dynasty, was only a middle-aged person, and basically did not change the true character of the backward local political power when the country was founded.

Specifically, the three provincial officials are directly responsible for more than 350 prefectures. Theoretically, there are more than 300 local units under a few ruling organs.

For example, there are more than 300 class teachers under the head of a grade, and the situation of these more than 300 classes is still very different, some classes are key classes, some are sports special classes with many sports students and need to be regularly organized and trained, and some belong to the old and young and poor who need the help of grades and other classes.

The head of this grade has to manage these classes well, and he will be tired to death.

Although Yang Guang, the Emperor Yang of Sui who inherited Emperor Wen of Sui, was much higher than Yang Jian in terms of political ability and political vision, he took such a big step in such a stall, and he was not careful.

The previous dynasty that had pulled the egg was over, and the two Taizu Taizong, who inherited the previous dynasty, summed up the lessons of the previous generation, but they were born in the aristocracy, and they went to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which was only used to control the local government in Guanzhong.

It can even be said that it is precisely because of the two generations of Taizu and Taizong that they have left a foreshadowing for the current dogskin reversal of the Yu Dynasty.

Before the former dynasty and the Great Yu, the world was in a state of division, and the area controlled by each country was not large, although there may be a hundred states under its jurisdiction, but the central organs worked hard to operate, and they were still able to manage it well.

Now that the three are combined, the pressure has increased threefold sharply, and the original system is simply impossible to bear.

The reason for the rebellion in the east was essentially the increased military pressure of the nomads from the north, and it was impossible to resist it by relying only on the strength of one state, so it was necessary to gather the forces of several states to form a larger administrative division.

However, although Dayu Taizu's martial arts are fierce, his knowledge is inevitably insufficient. Although Emperor Taizong divided the world into ten realms, his character was wide on the outside and taboo on the inside, and he did not fix this system.

It can be said that in response to the situation and the establishment of the political system, these two are too far from the two heroes of Han Gaozu and Ming Taizu.

Military pressure from the north forced the imperial court to make drastic reforms, forming a jiedu envoy who controlled all the power of the states. However, the failure of the reform, and the loss of control of the festival led to the backlash of the imperial court, which eventually further evolved into the current pattern.

After all, they have limited knowledge, although their achievements can be called handsome, but compared to the top figures among their peers before and after, they are still slightly inferior after all.

Although the internal and external troubles still exist, after all, it has reached a relatively stable period, and Li Xu can also simmer slowly according to his own ideas, and slowly adjust the system of the imperial court to a more reasonable direction.

Jiannan Province is an excellent pilot project.

This is almost a microcosm of the whole Dayu.

Jiannan was under military pressure from both the Tibetan and Nanzhao sides, but there was also the thriving industrial and commercial city of Yizhou, the fertile villages of the Central Sichuan Plain, and the thousands of villages in the land of Dayu.

If we can get a stable system in Jiannan that can be replicated, then we can steadily spread it in other regions and establish a new system. In the end, it provides a mature idea for solving the problem of feudal towns in the imperial court.

In order for such a system to exist, the Dayu Imperial Court did not hesitate to dry up and fish, and wantonly exploited the people, and the result of exploiting the people was inevitably a decrease in the people's willingness to produce, which eventually led to a depression that destroyed everything.

Li Xu must act quickly and make some changes at the moment when this death spiral is about to come to an end.

"Your Majesty's thoughts, the old minister thought it was okay. It's just that there has been a rumor in Beijing recently, can Your Majesty know about it?"