Liu Chan asked Li Yu, "Do you know what I called you over this time?" ”

"I don't know."

Liu Chan groaned: "For more than a year, there have been cases committed by the children of the officials' families, and they have paid bribes to the Tingwei Mansion, hoping that the younger brother of the family will be exempted.

There were 26 cases related to the officials' families, and there were as many as 16 cases of officials involved in bribery, but fortunately, the Tingwei Mansion was managed by Zichu, and the officials were selfless and reported it, do you know this matter? ”

Li Yu nodded and said, "Weichen has heard of it. ”

Liu Chan asked, "Then what do you think?" ”

"The country is a moth, and it is not a pity to die." Li Yu said eight words lightly.

At the beginning, Li Yu was young and frivolous, and he did a lot of wrong things, but that was because he was young and ignorant. But these officials today are different, knowing the law and breaking the law, bribing officials to bribe, it is indeed not a pity to die.

Liu Chan clapped his palms and said, "It's not a pity to die. Now that my Han Dynasty has just been established, it is at the critical juncture of revival, and most of the officials are honest and honest, but there are still many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, like moths, constantly eating away at my Han Dynasty.

Originally, I wanted to hand over this matter to Tingwei to handle, but Tingwei needed to deal with cases across the country, and he was busy with official business, so I couldn't bear Liu Zichu's hard work, so I wanted to separate this matter from Tingwei's mansion. ”

When the ministers heard this, they knew that Liu Chan was planning to hand over the case of corrupt officials to Li Yu to handle.

Li Yu's face was not surprised or happy, and he stood in place and waited for Liu Chan's next words.

Liu Chan continued: "In this case across the country, Xing Prison is under the management of Tingwei, and Tingwei is really too busy, and it just so happened this time, so I plan to set up a department to share the pressure for Tingwei. ”

"Your Majesty!" Hearing this, Pang Tong arched his hand and said, "Are you planning to separate the rights of supervision and trial officials from the court lieutenants?" Since ancient times, there has been a royal history platform responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, impeaching officials, and upholding discipline.

However, at present, my Han Dynasty has not set up the Imperial Historical Observatory, so the supervision of officials, the power of impeachment is responsible for the Imperial Lieutenant, and now there are corrupt officials in the Han Dynasty, Your Majesty can reset the Imperial Historical Observatory to supervise the virtue of hundreds of officials, and rectify the discipline.

However, Li Yu is still young and may not be able to take on this big responsibility. ”

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the one in charge of the Imperial Historical Observatory was the Imperial Historical Zhongcheng, who was responsible for supervising hundreds of officials and had the right to impeach. At present, it is very similar to the Commission for Discipline Inspection.

In Pang Tong's view, now that it is involved with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, if it is necessary to re-establish a department to deal with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it must be to establish the Imperial History Platform. It's just that this position is a little inappropriate for Li Yu to take over.

A young man in his twenties, who came to take charge of the country's discipline issues, jumped to an equal footing with these court officials, and no one would be convinced, nor could he convince the public. In this way, it will not be able to deter those corrupt officials.

Liu Chan waved his hand and said, "I don't want to set up the Imperial History Observatory right now!" In this Northern Expedition, Huang Xu and Deng Ai all stayed in Yongliang, and E Huan went to Nanzhong again.

In this way, first set up a Gong Wei Division, manage my honor guard, and some of the personal guards, this time the case against corrupt officials and corrupt officials, will be handled by the Gong Wei Division, and directly obey me, Li Yu, I will appoint you as the commander of the Gong Wei Division. ”

After listening to Liu Chan's words, the ministers couldn't understand what Liu Chan meant.

Since you want to deal with corrupt officials and corrupt officials, you can directly set up the Imperial Historical Tower, why go around a big circle to set up a Gongwei Division? What is its purpose?

Most of the ministers couldn't understand Liu Chan's thoughts, but Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others vaguely guessed that Liu Chan's hand was planning to centralize power. I'm afraid that this Gong Wei Division will slowly grow in the future, and the power is not just to control the emperor's honor guard and personal guards.

In all dynasties, the wise and martial emperors would implement centralized power and hold power in their own hands, Pang Tong, Xu Shu and others felt that Liu Chan should also do this for the purpose of centralizing power.

Pang Tong Xu Shu and others guessed correctly, Liu Chan's purpose in establishing the Gongwei Division was precisely to centralize power.

Historically, Gong Weisi is actually the predecessor of Jinyiwei, as early as before, Liu Chan had the intention of establishing Jinyiwei, but the rice had to be eaten one bite at a time, and it was impossible to eat fat in one go, so the formation of Jinyiwei had to be carried out step by step, and it was impossible to establish it in one step.

Therefore, the establishment of the Gongwei Division is the first step in the formation of Jinyiwei.

Of course, the Jinyiwei established by Zhu Yuanzhang in history is actually not very good, its power is too great, and if the commander is not right-minded and abuses his power, it will endanger the country.

Hu Weiyong, the Lan Yu case implicated tens of thousands, among which there must be innocent people, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's cruelty, it is also inseparable from Jinyiwei's abuse of power.

Therefore, the Jinyiwei that Liu Chan intended to establish was slightly different from the historical ones.

Since Liu Chan only set up the Gongwei Division, he only let Li Yu temporarily take charge of the corruption case, and did not let Li Yu take charge of the Yushi Observatory, so the ministers did not say much.

After the state report was completed, Liu Chan asked the ministers to leave and left Li Yu alone.

"Sit!" Liu Chan sat Li Yu down, and he trusted Li Yu Liu Chan 100%, because of Nie Zheng's experience, his loyalty is now as high as 100 full value.

Its four-dimensional ability is also very good, Li Yu: 93 in force, 76 in commander, 85 in intelligence, and 82 in politics.

After several years of imprisonment, Li Yu was indignant, and he learned a lot from Liu Ba.

Liu Chan looked at Li Yu and said, "Do you know why I set up the Gong Wei Division? ”

Li Yu arched his hand and said: "Weichen is stupid and doesn't know Your Majesty's intentions, but whatever Your Majesty asks me to do, I will do it, and I will never complain." ”

Liu Chan nodded with satisfaction, after three years of precipitation, Li Yu has been sharpened into a knife that belongs to Liu Chan.

Liu Chan looked at Li Yu and said: "Although I am the son of the Han Dynasty, I have no eyes, no ears, I can't see every corner of the Han Dynasty, and I can't hear what the people of the Han Dynasty say, so I need a pair of eyes and ears, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Li Yu is a smart person, he can see through a little, he bowed to the ground: "Weichen is willing to be His Majesty's eyes and ears, every corner of the Han Dynasty, every voice, will not be able to escape His Majesty's eyes and ears." ”

"Good!" Liu Chan nodded with satisfaction: "Gong Weisi, although he is my personal soldier and is in charge of my honor guard, but this is only on the surface, secretly, he has to become my eyes and ears, collect intelligence for me, supervise hundreds of officials, develop and grow, and infiltrate enemy countries and cultivate forces."

Its role is to stabilize the country and to deal with enemy countries.

This time to deal with the corruption case is an opportunity, you can take the opportunity to develop, I allocated you 500 personal guards, by you to dispatch, first take Chengdu as the center, spread to the surroundings, how much does it cost, tell me, I will fully support. It's just that after the corruption case is over, I want to see the results. ”

It turned out that the reason why Liu Chan did not set up the Yushitai, but handed over the corruption and fraud case to Li Yu to be responsible, was just to take the opportunity to develop his power.

However, thinking of the disadvantages of Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Chan did not give Jinyiwei the judicial right to arrest and interrogate, only the right to supervise.

Li Yu bowed to the ground: "Your Majesty rest assured, Weichen may not let Your Majesty down." ”