After listening to the third child's story, Lao Zhu and the eldest brother looked astonished.
"It turns out these words were all taught to you by Lao Liu."
As for why Lao Liu could say these words, isn't it natural? Don't look at who his master is?
"Yes." King Jin was not greedy for merit. He nodded and said: "He has to go to school today and can't go to court with me. He just told me that I talked about this with Mr. Liu the day before yesterday. Mr. Liu reminded him that civil servants
They are the best at sophistry and turning the dead into alive."
"Scare, did Mr. Liu expect what happened this morning?" Boss Zhu said with his mouth wide open.
"Yes, Lao Liu said that they were most likely to use 'Ignorance is not guilty' as a defense, so he told me those two sentences, saying that they would definitely shut up." King Jin said.
"It is indeed Liu Bowen's clever calculation!" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt that it was the most correct decision to let Lao Liu study with Liu Bowen.
"Is there a possibility that Lao Liu thought of these words himself?" the prince suddenly asked.
"How is it possible?" Zhu Yuanzhang and Lao San said in unison without thinking:
"We didn't expect it, is it just him?"
"I didn't even expect that my sixth brother is not as good as me..."
"Okay." The prince nodded, but also thought it was unlikely. "But in the future, the sixth child may not be able to be better than his master."
"Of course, it doesn't matter whose son it is!" Boss Zhu laughed loudly, felt proud for a while, and then said with a sullen face:
"Damn it, Hu Weiyong, almost made it impossible for us to get off the stage."
"Yes, I don't know who gave him the courage to contradict his father on the spot?" The third child nodded hurriedly.
"He is indeed very courageous..." The prince nodded. Today's events made him have a very bad impression of Hu Weiyong.
"Who gave him the courage? His position as prime minister." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said:
"Have you seen the magic of the position of prime minister, boss? Not only you, Uncle Li, but also Hu Weiyong will fight against us if he sits in that position."
"Normally, the prime minister is in charge of the emperor and manages yin and yang. How can you just obey?" Zhu Biao said with a smile.
"This is what those civil servants deliberately instilled into you, so that you feel that it should be like this." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "They said it was for you and the country, but in fact it was to tame you, and their intentions are terrible!"
"Haha..." The prince smiled. His father always had a bad impression of civil servants and always felt that scholars had ulterior motives. After this empty seal case, I am afraid it will become even worse.
"We have made up our minds to limit the power of the Zhongshu Province and never let what happened this time happen again." Zhu Yuanzhang did not discuss it with him anymore, but just said decisively:
"After the Kongyin case is concluded, an edict was issued to abolish the Zhongshu Province Pingzhang Zhengshi, Shenzhi Zhengshi, Yushitai Censor, Zhishu, Palace Censor and other officials, and they will no longer be established in the future."
"Oh?" Zhu Biao and Zhu were both surprised.
The Pingzhang Zhengshi of Zhongshu Province and the Shenzhi Zhengshi are the prime ministers and senior subordinate officials under the left and right prime ministers.
The officials in the Yushitai, such as the Censor, the Censor, and the Censor in the palace are also the Censor and officials under the Zhongcheng.
It seemed that the emperor's father had abolished both the Zhongshu Province and the Yushitai, but in fact they were quite different.
Because Yushitai is so virtuous and capable that it can be compared with Zhongshu Province? My father deliberately juxtaposed the two, which is obviously to praise Yushitai!
Moreover, those officials such as the imperial censor are actually no different from the supervisory censors. They are all responsible for supervision and impeachment, but their grades are different. Removing them will not affect the operation of the censorship, but will concentrate power on the censorship.
Improve the status of the imperial censor to facilitate his supervision of the Zhongshu Province.
On the other hand, the posts of Pingzhang and Zhizhi are all set up by the Xing Zhongshu Province under the Zhongshu Province!
To put it bluntly, they were sent from Zhongshu Province to serve as frontier officials in various provinces.
My father wants to abolish these two official positions, and there will be no senior officials in each province...
"Who will be in charge of the twelve provinces in the country?" The prince thought about this question.
"It's simple. If there is no province, doesn't it mean that there is no need for the governor of a province?" Zhu Yuanzhang already had a plan in his mind and said:
"We have long disliked the lousy name 'Xing Sheng'. One, it was the name of the Yuan Dynasty. How could there be such a lousy name in the Han and Tang Dynasties? Two, its full name is Xing Zhongshu Province, which is related to Zhongshu Province.
It’s too close. His grandma’s, we can’t take care of the Zhongshu Province, and we can’t take care of your Xingzhongshu Province?”
"Oh, it's a name change." The prince breathed a sigh of relief. He thought his father wanted to cancel the provincial level divisions.
"Well, we have already thought of the name." Zhu Yuanzhang said, walked to the imperial case, picked up a pen and wrote down a line of words.
The two brothers watched and recited.
"Cheng, Xuan, Bu, Zheng, Envoy, Secretary?"
"Yes, I accept the appointment as the Prime Minister!" Zhu Yuanzhang was so proud that he created history again.
"What do you mean?" The prince and the third child were confused. Is it such a long name?
This feeling is as strange as Boss Zhu giving his grandson a six-character name.
"It means 'the yamen responsible for undertaking the government's decrees and disseminating them to the jurisdiction'." Zhu Yuanzhang explained with an expression of "please praise me now":
"Abbreviation - Chengxuanzhengshisi. For example, the original province of Shandong will be called Shandong Chengxuanzhengshisi from now on. The parallel province of Beiping will be called Beiping Chengxuanzhengshisi. Isn't it more educated than before?
Already?"
"Haha, yes..." The two brothers forced a smile and clapped, wondering if they would fart without taking off their pants?
Not really.
Just listen to the system design maniac Boss Zhu continue:
"But I admit that the Provincial Government Envoys' Department is not the Executive Secretary of the State Council. It is just a government office in the province that is responsible for political affairs. It is on the same level as the Provincial Envoys' Department, which is responsible for the criminal affairs of a province, and the General Commanding Envoys' Department, which is responsible for the military affairs of a province.
Don’t subordinate each other, supervise each other!
"In this way, the original powers of the Zhongshu Province will be divided into three. It will be much more difficult for the Prime Minister of the Zhongshu Province to control the province!"
The prince and King Jin were both dumbfounded. This was indeed an unprecedented new version.
"But in this case, the provinces...well, the political envoys of each province will no longer be able to make decisions. Will the three monks have no food to eat?" The prince keenly foresaw the disadvantages of this.
"Which is the lesser of two evils." Zhu Yuanzhang said unconcernedly: "Besides, the world is basically stable, and there will be no big enemies in the place where the government envoys are established. Someone needs to make the decision with the authority. What are the three things?
After discussing with the Secretary, we think it would be better to have a branch of politics. At least the emperor will not be unearthed."
"I understand." The prince nodded and said nothing more.
"Without further delay, we won't wait until the Kongyin case is over. After the fourth brother's wedding, you will supervise this matter immediately. You must seize the opportunity to complete the restructuring during this period of least resistance!" Zhu Yuanzhang ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes, father." The prince responded in a deep voice.
He even felt that his father's purpose in launching the Empty Seal Case was to abolish the provinces so that Zhongshu Province could no longer cover the sky with one hand like before.
ps. My head still hurts, so I won’t write anymore. I will write tomorrow morning when I get up.
