At the beginning of every day, the routine summoning of the cabinet ministers was arranged by Li Zhongyi to be held in the west wing of the upper study.

The upper study is the new name that Li Zhongyi gave to his own inner study. According to the latest edict, the decree issued in the name of Li Zhongyi, one of the signatures, seals, and passwords should be named Shangshufang.

As for Li Zhongyi's private seal, it is in the name of the owner of Huairen Pavilion, and public and private must be clearly distinguished.

"Back to the Lord, the patrol shop in Kaifeng City has been reorganized, please show the Lord, which yamen should be under the jurisdiction?" Prime Minister Wei Renpu seems to be calm, but in fact, his mood is fluctuating.

After Li Zhongyi entered Kaifeng City, the first to be reorganized was the Xiang Army stationed in the city, and tens of thousands of Xiang troops were placed under the jurisdiction of Li Yunxiao, the commander of Jiumen.

After Li Yunxiao took office, he carried out a drastic reorganization of the Xiang army, and after careful screening, finally eliminated 40,000 people, leaving only 3,000 people

Even these 3,000 sturdy men were completely dispersed and arranged into the newly formed garrison. The garrison, with nearly 30,000 men of Li Yunxiao's Third Army, as the main force, was responsible for the defense of Kaifeng City.

At the same time, the original security forces in Kaifeng City can be described as diverse and varied.

There are not only the defense army belonging to Kaifeng Prefecture, but also the patrol police shops belonging to various county yamen in the same city, and the ordinary officers in the yamen can actually arrest people at will without any formalities.

When Li Zhongyi was the governor of Kaifeng Mansion before, he didn't dare to reform because of his identity.

Now that Li Zhongyi has mastered the major policies, the chaotic situation of the numerous public security yamen in the capital naturally requires thorough reform.

After the reorganization of the patrol shop, the power is extremely huge, according to the proposed scope of responsibility, the entire Kaifeng City civil security, are under the jurisdiction of the patrol shop.

Because of this, the four ministers of the cabinet, including Li Qiong, all want to take the power of patrol police into the hands of the cabinet.

The fundamental contradiction between imperial power and relative power lies in the fact that the nature of power expansion is not subject to human will.

To put it bluntly, if the relative power is increased by one point, the imperial power is reduced by two points, and vice versa.

Li Zhongyi can still let go of other powers, but he will never let go of the security forces next to the couch.

"Don't hide it from you, I want to set up a separate yamen, just call it the Police Temple, and the patrol police shop will be under the jurisdiction of the Police Temple, right?" Li Zhongyi didn't want to give the ministers a chance to argue at all, and said his true thoughts all the way, "My preliminary idea is that the patrol police shop is divided into four, southeast, northwest and northwest, one for each of these four cities, and it has jurisdiction over patrol police branches and patrol police stations. Police temple under the jurisdiction of all parts of the country patrol police shop, resentment, anti-fine work and other public security-related departments, it should be emphasized that the police temple directly belongs to the lonely! ”

When Li Zhongyi summoned the cabinet ministers, he usually referred to himself as me, so as to show respect for the ministers.

However, the four cabinet ministers who are familiar with Li Zhongyi's temper are all extremely smart people. As long as Li Zhongyi claims to be alone, this means that what he says is not discussing with Xianggong, but his true thoughts and decisions.

To put it bluntly, since Li Zhongyi emptied the political hall and changed the political hall to the cabinet, the power of the cabinet is far inferior to the political hall that integrates the power of the imperial court.

In the past, the political affairs hall, which was commonly known as the East Mansion, was in charge of the clouds in the sky, and had eight underground floors, almost everything.

After Li Zhongyi came to power, he first deprived the cabinet of the authority to intervene in the military, and the Privy Council, commonly known as the Xifu, became the bag of the ruling palace. Except for Li Zhongyi himself, whoever dares to mess with military power will definitely be unlucky!

Now, Li Zhongyi wants to take away the power of the cabinet to meddle in public security, even if the four ministers of the cabinet are appointed by him, everyone is forced into a corner.

"Lord, the cabinet will only be in charge of civil affairs and government affairs in the future, why don't you change it to a people's cabinet?" Kong Kun saw that Prime Minister Wei Renpu had been pretending to be deaf and dumb, and he did not dare to directly refute Li Zhongyi's absurd decision.

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, he knew that only Kong Kun would stand up and seek justice for the cabinet that had lost a lot of authority.

The inclusion of Kong Kun, a crow, in the cabinet, was actually deliberately done by Li Zhongyi, in order to centralize power and not to overdo it.

As long as we go to extremes, we will definitely lead the whole country to go astray.

Among the four ministers of the cabinet, Prime Minister Wei Renpu knew that he was not Li Zhongyi's confidant, and he rarely took care of things on weekdays, so he waited for Li Zhongyi to favor the descendants of the Wei family.

Li Qiong's seniority is high and senior, but because of the identity of her relatives, she is worried about provoking criticism from the outside world, and she does not dare to refute Li Zhongyi's intentions.

Liu Jinshan is Li Zhongyi's most trusted confidant, and because of this, he is actually a person who knows in advance.

Li Zhongyi summoned Liu Jinshan alone many times, and explained the importance of the police temple directly belonging to the palace, and explained it again and again.

Liu Jinshan realized from this that Li Zhongyi's determination to completely control the power of the military and police throughout the country is absolutely unshakable.

Li Zhongyi said very plainly in front of Liu Jinshan, how could he allow others to hold his name next to the couch?

Now, since Kong Kun really jumped out as expected, Li Zhongyi took a sip of tea and explained slowly: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you know why the security situation in the capital is so bad? ”

The prime ministers who can occupy a place in the cabinet, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps, and the prime ministers all know that Li Zhongyi must have the following, so they are silent and silently wait for Li Zhongyi's reasonable explanation.

Li Zhongyi sighed and said: "According to the statistics of Kaifeng Mansion, the most resentful public security incidents in the capital over the years are inextricably linked with the homes of the ministers of the imperial court. There was a man who galloped through the bazaar, trampled one person to death, and trampled and injured five others, but he only lost a small amount of money. That's it, the family of the deceased refused to accept the complaint, and was actually charged with making trouble, arrested and put in prison, and was almost starved to death by the prison officials. ”

"There are many, many similar cases, there are Yanei who robbed the daughter of a good family on the street, but finally accepted the girl as a concubine, which has become a 'beautiful thing' that everyone is happy about." Li Zhongyi changed his words and said sharply, "Let me ask, is there still a royal law in this world?" ”

"Lord ......" Kong Kun heard that the voice was wrong, so he wanted to argue, but Li Zhongyi waved his hand categorically and said directly, "The reason is actually very simple, whether it is Kaifeng Mansion, Xiangfu County, the Criminal Department or Dali Temple, they dare not offend the family of the powerful." ”

"Kong Shenzhi, aren't you worried that your family will commit a crime and can't intervene?" As soon as Li Zhongyi said this, he was obviously questioning Kong Kun, however, the three prime ministers, Wei Renpu, Li Qiong and Liu Jinshan, couldn't sit still.

"The ministers don't dare to have such delusions." The ministers pinched the cold sweat, hurriedly stood up, and apologized for their sins.

"Well, that's it! Police Temple, the lonely management is decided! Li Zhongyi made a straight face, and the final word was final, and it was difficult to chase after ten thousand horses!