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The emperor appointed a hundred officials, and the hundred officials assisted the emperor and herdsmen.

Since the emergence of feudal dynasties, the emperor and the hundred officials, the imperial power and the vassal power, have been complementary and mutually reinforcing, and neither side can do without the other, but they are often opposed and compete with each other.

In Zhao Junchen's eyes, the struggle between the imperial power and the subordinate power began after the emergence of the two major classes of monarchs and ministers.

However, if you look at the history of China, you will find that although the vassal power has been fighting against the imperial power, but with the change of dynasties and the improvement of the system, the imperial power is getting stronger and stronger, and the vassal power is getting weaker and weaker, and in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial power has reached its peak, and the vassal power has never been able to compete with the imperial power.

Why is this happening?

Many historians believe that this is the reason why the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty created the Military Aircraft Department to replace the cabinet, but in Zhao Junchen's view, the effect of the "secret folding system" after it gradually flourished was no less than the emergence of the Military Aircraft Department.

What is the "Secret Folding System"?

The so-called secret fold system allows and encourages officials above a certain rank in the court to directly hand over secret folds to the emperor, or express political opinions, or impeach officials.

The function of the secret folding system is twofold, one is to further black-box the operation of the government. It adds to the mystery of imperial power and the sense of awe of the emperor by the officials. The second is to encourage the 100 officials of the DPRK and China, especially their colleagues, to tell each other, so that the 100 officials can contain each other and have internal friction with each other. In the end, the emperor reaped the benefits of the fisherman.

It is conceivable that if the "secret folding system" is really implemented. Then officials of a certain rank can go up to the secret music alone, and all the colleagues around them have become "spies", and even lower-level officials can also go beyond the level to sue higher-level officials, and everyone has the possibility of making a small report, so who else dares to do things that are not subordinate behind the emperor's back? Naturally, it was impossible to prevent it, so I had to be honest and "loyal".

Moreover, once the "secret folding system" is implemented, there will inevitably be turmoil in the temple at that time, and everyone will take the opportunity to impeach others. Everyone will also be impeached by others, and at that time, the emperor will control the evidence of every official's guilt, and even if there is no punishment for a while, it will be easy to rectify it in the future.

At that time, the imperial power will naturally suppress the power of the ministers, and the officials will naturally no longer dare to offend the emperor.

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In fact, although the "secret folding system" was founded in Kangxi. It completely flourished in Yongzheng, but the Ming Dynasty also had a similar system, that is, the "dense system".

It's just that compared to the "dense system". The "secret folding system" involves a wider range of contents, a larger number of people with secret folding qualifications, more complete confidentiality measures, and more standardized procedures for transmission and submission.

It can be said that the "dense folding system" is the deepening and improvement of the "dense and sparse system", and the most important change in it. It's the fact that there are more people who are eligible for secret folding, and that the procedure for passing on the submission has changed!

In the Ming Dynasty. Whoever qualifies for a secret fold depends on his position. Generally speaking, only the imperial historians of the Imperial Procuratorate, the chief officials of the six sections, the officials of the Qin Tianjian and the officials above the third rank of the court can have the qualifications to be in the upper court, and once they lose their official positions or change their official positions, such qualifications will no longer exist.

However, under the "secret folding system" of the Qing Dynasty, in addition to lowering the threshold for secret folding qualifications, as long as the emperor authorizes it, anyone has the qualifications to go to the secret fold and secret folding, even if he loses his official position, he can also go directly to heaven.

In the Ming Dynasty, the courtiers sent secret information to the emperor, and the Beijing officials were generally sent to the Yamen of the General Administration Department for forwarding, while the foreign officials were forwarded to the General Administration Department through the General Administration Department Tong Guò Post Post, so that there were many places, and naturally there was more possibility of leakage, and as the General Administration Department Yamen was gradually infiltrated by the major factions in the court, the so-called "secret sparse" gradually lost the effect of secrecy.

As for the secret folding system of the Qing Dynasty, the courtiers directly sent the secret fold to the emperor's hands by themselves or sent cronies, without changing hands.

In this way, the effect of the "secret folding system" is naturally far greater than that of the "dense and sparse system."

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Zhao Junchen recalled the "secret folding system" he had learned about in his previous life, and then compared the "secret folding system" described by Li Chunchen in the answer sheet, and found that the two not only had the same name, but also had a striking similarity in content.

Thinking that it was precisely because of the prevalence of the "secret folding system" that the Qing Dynasty created the peak of imperial power and the weakening of the power of ministers, Zhao Junchen would naturally treat it cautiously.

This is no small matter!

"History always has its regularity, I never thought that I came to this different historical time and space, but the secret folding system still appeared! ……

…… So it is so, once this answer sheet is seen by Emperor Deqing, he will naturally see the benefits of such a policy for strengthening imperial power, and he will inevitably be moved, and then he will inevitably implement the policy built on the answer sheet step by step, and Li Chunchen proposed such a building, and it will inevitably be favored by Emperor Deqing, and when the time comes, with the support of Emperor Deqing, it will be easy to rise between temples and halls......

…… No wonder Li Chunchen is so confident, he doesn't plan to join any faction in the court, let alone let himself have the slightest faction imprint, I'm afraid he guessed the scope of the Deqing Emperor's examination in the current science palace, he thought of this answer, the secret folding system is what he came up with, and there is no factional imprint on his body, Deqing Emperor in the implementation of the secret folding system step by step at the same time, will inevitably reuse him step by step, in the end, maybe he will become the best candidate for the official responsible for handling and forwarding the secret fold. At that time, it will naturally be a step to the sky......"

Between the thoughts, the thoughts are getting clearer and clearer. But Zhao Junchen's brows became tighter and tighter.

Zhao Junchen is now bent on getting rid of the control of Emperor Deqing, but once the "secret folding system" established by Li Chunchen is implemented. I'm afraid that even the first assistant Zhou Shangjing will be suppressed by Emperor Deqing, not to mention the current Zhao Junchen! When the time comes, Zhao Junchen wants to get rid of Emperor Deqing's control. It's even harder!

This is also the reason why Zhao Junchen notified Zhou Shangjing as soon as possible.

At least in this matter, Zhou Shangjing and Zhao Junchen have common interests, and Zhao Junchen also trusts Zhou Shangjing's political vision and means, so at this time, Zhao Junchen doesn't mind joining forces with Zhou Shangjing to prevent the emergence and implementation of the "secret folding system"!

"However, things have come to this point, as long as Emperor Deqing makes up his mind, even if I join forces with Zhou Shangjing. In addition, Huang Yourong and Shen Changmao are afraid that it will be difficult to stop the implementation of the secret folding system, at most it will only delay for some time, so my plans also need to speed up the progress, otherwise when Emperor Deqing wants to cross the river and demolish the bridge in the future, I really don't have any power to resist. ”

Between thoughts, Zhao Junchen's original good impression of Li Chunchen in his heart suddenly disappeared.

Before that. Zhao Junchen had always thought that Li Chunchen was just an ambitious and very intelligent young man, and he admired him quite a lot—this appreciation may be somewhat similar to how Zhou Shangjing looked at the current Zhao Junchen.

However, after seeing this answer. Zhao Junchen found that although this Li Chunchen was smart enough, he was short-sighted! Didn't he know that once the "secret folding system" was implemented, he himself would no longer be able to resist the power of the imperial power? Until that time. No matter how high the rank and how expensive the rank is, what is the use? Not to mention that if he does this, he will offend all the powerful ministers in the court. Or. Is his ambition limited to "gaining His Majesty's appreciation"?

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And just as Zhao Junchen was thinking about it, time passed extremely fast. Xu Qingyan finally went and returned.

I saw Xu Qingyan push the door and enter, and reported to Zhao Junchen: "Young master, the person who went to Zhou Shangjing's mansion to deliver the letter has returned, and there is also a steward of Zhou's mansion named Zhou Quan. ”

Zhao Junchen nodded and said, "Bring him to see me." ”

A moment later, Xu Qingyan led a middle-aged man into the study.

"The villain Zhou Mansion is thoughtful, and he has seen Lord Zhao."

After Zhou Quan saw Zhao Junchen, he saluted respectfully.

Zhao Junchen nodded and said, "You don't have to salute, Zhou Shoufu must have read the paper scroll I sent, but I don't know what he thinks?" ”

Zhou Quan replied: "My lord Shoufu said, thank you Lord Zhao for your advance notice, but this matter, he has no way to stop it for a while, although my lord Shoufu is the head of the ministers of the examination of the current science palace, but the total number of ministers of the examination is more than ten people, including Cheng Yuandao and other foolish and loyal people, not to mention that the topic of the examination of the palace is meaningful, and he is afraid that he will personally review it, so he will see this examination paper no matter what, and once he sees it, It will inevitably be carried out according to the method on the examination papers, and even if all the factions in the DPRK and China work together to stop it, I am afraid that it will only be able to stop it for a while. ”

Zhao Junchen nodded, he had already thought of these in advance, and just asked, "So, what does Lord Shoufu have about this secret folding system?" ”

Zhou Quan smiled slightly, and said: "My first master said that since ancient times, there has never been a perfect policy, many policies will make people feel seamless at the beginning of the idea, and it looks quite scary, but after a long time of implementation, people will always find flaws, and once there are flaws, then this policy will no longer be effective, so Lord Zhao, you don't have to worry, just wait and see what happens." ”

Zhao Junchen sighed softly and said: "I see, Lord Shoufu is really good city, but I am frizzy, you go back and tell Lord Shoufu, just say that if he finds the flaw of this secret folding system in the future, I hope he will give him advice, I am stupid, but I can't think of the flaw in this system anyway." ”

From a certain point of view, Zhou Shangjing's truth is not wrong, there is indeed no perfect policy in this world, "there are policies and countermeasures" is the foundation of officials' lives, any policy and system, as long as you look carefully, you will definitely be able to find the flaw.

However, in Zhao Junchen's view, even if the flaws in this "secret folding system" really exist. This flaw is probably very rare, and even if it is discovered, it will be difficult to exploit. Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty period in another historical time and space. Why was there no official who could resist the power of the imperial power under the "secret folding system"?

Therefore, Zhao Junchen thinks. Zhou Shangjing is afraid that this time he despised the strictness of this "secret folding system".

In fact, the Ming Dynasty's "dense system" was annoying enough, let alone a strengthened version of the "secret folding system"!

However, since Zhou Shangjing has already expressed his opinion, Zhao Junchen did not directly question it, but only secretly reminded him with this sentence.

On the other side, hearing the hint in Zhao Junchen's words, Zhou Quan was slightly stunned, then nodded: "The villain understands." When I go back, I will definitely tell my family's Shousuke-sama. ”

Zhao Junchen sighed lightly again, and seeing that Zhou Quan had nothing else to say, he waved his hand and said, "Qingyan, send off the guests." ”

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When Xu Qingyan returned to the study again, Zhao Junchen, who had already made up his mind to speed up the progress of his various plans, asked Xu Qingyan: "A few days ago, I asked you to choose some loyal and shrewd shopkeepers among the branches of 'Yuerong Fang', how did you do this?" ”

Xu Qingyan was slightly stunned. I don't know why Zhao Junchen suddenly changed the topic, but he still replied: "Back to the young master, I have already selected the candidates, but now the branches of 'Yuerong Fang' have been opened all over the north of the Yangtze River." Many of the branch managers I have chosen have not yet returned to the capital, and I originally planned to bring them to you after everyone arrives. ”

Zhao Junchen pondered for a moment. said: "No need, let those shopkeepers who have already arrived in the capital come to see me tomorrow!" I have many things to tell them to do. Time is of the essence and you need to start early. As for those shopkeepers who didn't come, let them join in later. ”

"Understood, young master." Xu Qingyan agreed very simply, and did not ask questions as usual.

Because, Xu Qingyan found that since Zhao Junchen saw the answer sheet, there was a sense of urgency in his whole person.

"Also, how much silver is currently in the Fuzhong account?" Zhao Junchen asked again.

Although Zhao Junchen is a big corrupt official, he has never cared about his net worth, and this is the first time he has asked about the amount of silver in his hand.

However, Xu Qingyan, who has always been a fan of money, is very clear about this matter, in fact, Xu Qingyan has always been responsible for these silvers, and Zhao Junchen usually doesn't even carry silver tickets and silver on his body.

Sure enough, after hearing Zhao Junchen's inquiry, Xu Qingyan immediately replied: "Young master, we now have more than 3,718,000 taels of silver in the mansion, of which 730,000 taels of silver are now, and the rest are all silver stamps with a silver number, and more than 23,300 taels of gold, and there are also a lot of gold and silver in various industries and shops under the house, but these have always been Fang Ru's responsibility, and I don't know the specific amount." In addition, there are antiques and jewelry in the house, as well as ......"

Between the answers, Xu Qingyan's expression was full of excitement, this is the amount of gold and silver, which will always bring him a unique sense of satisfaction.

"Needless to say, the rest." Zhao Junchen waved his hand and interrupted: "You immediately take out half of the amount of gold and silver, well, all of them need silver tickets, and I will use them when I see those shopkeepers tomorrow." ”

"Half?" Xu Qingyan exclaimed.

Zhao Junchen frowned and said, "What? I can't touch this money? ”

Seeing Zhao Junchen's stern expression, Xu Qingyan didn't dare to question it anymore, and hurriedly replied, "I'll go and prepare immediately." ”

"Also, is there any news from the prince's side? When will he return to Beijing? Zhao Junchen asked again.

"According to the news, if there is no accident, I should return to Beijing within two days."

"Su Xiqing and Xiao Wenxuan, who I sent to Yangzhou, should have arrived in Yangzhou at the time, can there be a reply at present?"

"There is no news yet, if there is a reply, I will inform the young master as soon as possible."

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The implementation of the "secret folding system" will inevitably greatly enhance the power of imperial power, although it is still only a little bit of a sprout, but it still makes Zhao Junchen more urgent.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen began to speed up the progress of his various plans.

In this world, everything is empty, and only strength is the right way!

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