Seeing the way Li Qingyuan looked at him, Zhang Tuohai couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.
"Is this girl in love with me?"
Thinking of this situation, Zhang Tuohai's head couldn't help but feel big.
He is just a passerby in this world and cannot leave any promises to anyone.
He can't bear the deep love.
He can accept casual romance, but a heart full of love is too heavy for him.
"Wake up, wake up!"
Zhang Tuohai waved one hand back and forth in front of Li Qingyuan.
"What?" Li Qingyuan knocked Zhang Tuohai's hand aside and rubbed his blushing cheeks.
"Honestly, how is your relationship with the Prime Minister?"
Zhang Tuohai asked.
"The relationship seems to be okay. He doesn't show excessive closeness, but he doesn't seem too distant either. He looks like a normal prime minister. What's wrong? Is there something wrong with him?"
Li Qingyuan asked.
"Today's incident seems to be related to Prime Minister Cao!"
Zhang Tuohai said.
"It has something to do with him? Are you sure?" Li Qingyuan's expression became nervous.
Prime Minister Cao is the head of the civil servants of the dynasty. If Prime Minister Cao does not support her, the line of civil servants will be in danger.
"I just used Prime Minister Cao to deceive Xing Wuying. He was fooled and showed hesitation. I'm worried that this matter has something to do with Prime Minister Cao."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"It's just this little bit of evidence, but it doesn't prove anything, right?"
Li Qingyuan didn’t want to believe it.
"Xing Wuying is just a guard commander. It's impossible for him not to know that you removed all the surrounding guards. However, he actually blatantly disobeyed your orders and came directly to the courtyard."
"Moreover, after I came forward, this guy actually wanted to enter the house to search. This is blatantly throwing your face under his feet. How dare he, a little guard commander, dare?"
"I suspect there is someone behind him who supports him in doing this, and this person's status is not low. Otherwise, Xing Wuying will definitely die after doing this."
"Moreover, this marriage was mainly promoted by Prime Minister Cao, and the bride was also chosen by him. Xing Wuying openly wanted to enter the room at this time. I suspect that they have a whole set of plans later, and the biggest pusher behind the scenes is
Prime Minister Cao."
Zhang Tuohai analyzed.
After listening to Zhang Tuohai's analysis, Li Qingyuan remained silent.
She is not a vase who knows nothing.
In the first dozen years of her life, she had been trained as a prince, and she still had basic experience.
After Zhang Tuohai's analysis, she also felt that it was very reasonable.
And she reviewed what she saw and heard today. She didn't think anything was wrong at first, but now the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that something is not quite right.
"What should we do?" Li Qingyuan looked at Zhang Tuohai and regarded him as a life-saving straw.
"Let me think about it."
Zhang Tuohai walked around twice with his hands behind his back.
"In this case, you will put on makeup as a princess first, and we will wait and see what happens tomorrow."
"If they have a whole set of plans behind them, when we appear together tomorrow, someone will definitely contact you secretly. Whoever contacts you will be related to the person behind the scenes. We will catch this guy, and then follow the clues to find out who is behind the scenes.
Catch it."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"What if it was really Prime Minister Cao who did it?"
Li Qingyuan asked worriedly.
"Then kill him." Zhang Tuohai said calmly.
"Kill?" Li Qingyuan was surprised. She didn't expect Zhang Tuohai to say these two words so easily.
Although she has been involved in court battles since she was a child and has seen a lot of strife between courtiers, it is still rare to open her mouth and say to kill each other.
Everyone is still used to exchanging benefits with each other.
The worst that can happen is that he will be dismissed from his position and return to his hometown to retire.
Rarely will the opponent be killed directly.
After all, there is a balance between the several forces, and everyone still has to abide by some unspoken rules.
However, Zhang Tuohai opened his mouth to kill a prime minister. This is really inconsistent with Li Qingyuan's previous principles of dealing with things.
"This is the prime minister, the head of the civil service. Wouldn't it be better to kill him? Will it attract criticism?"
"Those people may be dissatisfied."
Li Qingyuan is a little worried.
"So what if you're dissatisfied?"
Zhang Tuohai sneered.
"What about the civil servant leader? He is just a minister, so what if he is killed? Could it be that without him, the court cannot function?"
Zhang Tuohai asked rhetorically.
"This..."
Li Qingyuan hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The Prime Minister is the head of the hundred officials. Everything needs to be reviewed by the Prime Minister before it can take effect. Without the Prime Minister, it will indeed affect the operation of the court."
"An official actually has such great power. Is he the emperor, or is he the emperor sitting on the throne?"
Zhang Tuohai asked coldly.
"This..." Li Qingyuan didn't know how to answer.
Hearing what Zhang Tuohai said, she also felt that there seemed to be something wrong.
What if she succeeds to the throne in the future, and if he wants to issue some decree, if the prime minister doesn't agree, it really won't work.
However, Li Qingyuan, who has lived within this framework for a long time, could not think of any solution for a while.
She had no choice but to turn to Zhang Tuohai for help.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"It's very simple, abolish the position of prime minister."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"Abolish it?" Li Qingyuan frowned, "Then the court..."
"Simple, abolish the official position of Prime Minister and establish a new department called the Cabinet."
Zhang Tuohai modified the cabinet system and introduced it.
"Let the six ministries and deputy officials be included in the cabinet. If there is any government affairs, the six ministries and the cabinet will discuss it together, come up with a solution, and submit it to the emperor for review. If the emperor agrees, it will be stamped and take effect. If the emperor disagrees, he will reject it. It will be reconsidered and the decision-making power will be taken back. Only in this way can we
Guarantee the supremacy of imperial power."
Zhang Tuohai said.
"What if the six cabinet ministries collude and fail to report important information?"
Li Qingyuan thought for a while and asked.
"Simple, two solutions."
Zhang Tuohai stretched out two fingers.
"Which two?"
"One is to set up a supervisory department, place hidden stakes in the houses of officials from the six departments, and monitor them secretly, so that you can clearly know every possible sign, so that you are not afraid of being deceived by them."
"As for the other one, it is to give all the officials below the right to go to the Secret Office. If there are any matters, they can directly go to the Secret Office and go directly to Tianting, bypassing the cabinet directly."
"With the constraints of these means, those cabinet officials will not dare to act rashly."
"Otherwise, if you step over the edge, your family will be confiscated and your clan will be exterminated."
"Then if the people below can read the secrets, wouldn't there be a lot of folds to read every day, and wouldn't it be very tiring?"
Li Qingyuan is a little worried.
"Don't worry, you can also set up another department called the Director of Ceremonies, which is composed of personal eunuchs, valets, and maids. Let them be responsible for reading ordinary memorials and sorting out things into briefings every day. You only need to read the briefings and important ones.
Just fold it."
"In order to prevent these people from acting arbitrarily, you can also separate them. Some are responsible for organizing memorials, some are responsible for responding to opinions, some are responsible for sealing, and some are responsible for issuing briefings. They can supervise and restrict each other. This is enough to ensure that everything they do is in order.
Under your control."
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