On the second day of the tenth section of the eighth chapter, Li Hong, the general of the great Sima, played the Son of Heaven, and set it by himself and the imperial court

Under the pretext of the "ten-year covenant", and considering that he could not exercise his powers normally while on expeditions all year round, he deliberately resigned from the military and political power of the six prefectures and four counties.

Li Hong's recital caused a shock in the court. No one expected Li Hong to hand over the military and political power of the six states and four counties so happily.

Does he have a back-up move? Lu Bu led the northern army on the way back to Jinyang, when the army arrived in Jinyang, would Li Hong launch a mutiny?

The more the ministers thought about it, the more frightened they became, and their hearts were terrified. Taifu Cai Yong, Da Situ Cui Lie, and Da Sikong Liu He immediately made an appointment to meet Li Hong.

At the eldest princess's reception banquet last night, did the general consult the eldest princess? What is the attitude of the eldest princess?

"The eldest princess's determination to take back power is very strong, and I don't have any choice." Li Hong said calmly: "My lordship and I immediately signed a joint letter to urge Your Majesty to revise the official system and take back all the power. On the third day, four princes, nine ministers, three secretaries and more than 30 court officials with a rank of more than 2,000 stones, headed by Taifu Cai Yong, jointly signed a letter requesting that the official system be revised.

The new official system basically followed the system of three princes and nine secretaries headed by the prime minister in the early days of the Great Qin Dynasty and this dynasty. In the new bureaucracy, the prime minister

"The Son of Heaven is in charge, and the assistant is Wanji", assisting the emperor in handling national government affairs. The prime minister is the general leader of the hundred officials of the imperial court, supports the major politics of the DPRK and China, convenes the court council, decides on the major military and political affairs of the country, seals and refutes the edict, appoints, dismisses and selects officials, presides over the county and the country, impeaches the hundred officials, admonishes the superiors and executes punishments to the subordinates, and other great powers.

Taiwei assists the emperor in handling all affairs, which is the highest honorary position of a military general, mainly to restrict the prime minister's power and prevent the prime minister from getting involved in military power.

Once the captain is added

"Lishang Shushi" is involved in handling state affairs. The Imperial Historian is equivalent to the deputy prime minister, who is responsible for the management of the royal books, handling the recitals presented to the emperor, and inheriting the emperor's edicts; Supervise hundreds of officials in the world, supervise the administration of the county and the state by the foreign governor and the consulate, and try the illegal cases of officials at all levels at the central and local levels.

The Imperial Historian is in charge of the Qing Gui, for

The appointment of "Fengxian" is respected by hundreds of officials. Due to the existence of the prime minister and the imperial historian in the new official system, the power of Shangshutai and Yushitai in the Shaofu was almost completely transferred.

In the afternoon of the same day, the eldest princess responded. She not only rejected the ministers' proposals, but also issued an edict to the ministers, suggesting that Shangshutai be separated from Shaofu and improve Shangshutai's status.

The Shaofu was the main institution of the emperor in this dynasty to deal with government affairs. Shangshutai is subordinate to the Shaofu in the Nine Qings and is not an independent institution.

The eldest princess asked to be separated from the Shaofu and exist as an independent body, apparently to strengthen the status and power of the Chinese and Korean officials, so that she could seize power more unscrupulously.

The ministers also responded immediately, they vetoed the eldest princess's proposal, strongly demanded that the official system be changed, and jointly recommended the general Li Hong as the prime minister in the new official system.

Li Hong's position in the current imperial court is irreplaceable. The ministers pushed him to the opposite side of the eldest princess, which was to force the eldest princess to give in.

That night, the eldest princess relented and agreed to revise the official system, but she insisted that Shangshutai be separated from Shaofu and exist as an independent institution.

At the same time, she made a decision that left the ministers dumbfounded. The eldest princess issued an edict to worship Li Hong as the general of the great Sima and lead the Shangshutai.

The ministers pushed Li Hong to the front and forced the eldest princess to give in and hand over the power. The eldest princess used her human way to govern herself, and also pushed Li Hong to the front, refusing to hand over the power controlled by Shang Shutai.

In this way, even if the official system is revised, the powers of the prime minister and the imperial historian in the new official system are still greatly weakened.

The eldest princess used the imperial power in her hands to forcibly classify Shangshutai as an independent institution, and handed over this greatly increased power Shangshutai to Li Hong, whose intention was obviously to push Li Hong to the opposite side of the ministers, split the alliance between Li Hong and the ministers, and let Li Hong come forward to force the ministers to give up the delusion of repairing the official system and regaining power.

In the face of Li Hong, whose power has expanded dramatically, the ministers can only choose to give up the idea of revising the official system and maintain the status quo.

Li Hong became the prime minister, at most a powerful minister, and the imperial power constraints of the Son of Heaven and the eldest princess. But once Li Hong controls Shangshutai and controls part of the imperial power and prime minister's power at the same time, then he is not just a powerful minister, but in fact has formed a situation of usurpation.

At this moment, Li Hong is like Wang Mang at the beginning, as long as he is willing to usurp Hanzuo, he can do it anytime, without fetters.

Li Hong took the initiative to hand over the military and political power of the six states and four counties, but because of the competition between the eldest princess and the ministers of the court and the central government, he was blessed by misfortune, but inadvertently gained greater authority.

This kind of situation, the eldest princess does not want to see, and the ministers of the court and the central government do not want to see it, this is simply a bloody battle of losing both sides and burying Sheji.

Now it seems that the eldest princess has suffered the greatest loss, although she has taken back the military and political power of the six states and four counties, eliminated the hidden danger of Li Hong's hegemony, and maintained the dignity of the imperial power, but she has lost control of the relative power, and even lost part of the imperial power, that is, part of the decision-making power of national affairs.

The ministers of the DPRK and China have benefited greatly from this struggle. If they can successfully prevent the eldest princess from setting up Shangshu**, then even if Li Hong supervises Shangshutai as the Great Sima General, they will be able to get back more power, after all, the power of the prime minister and the imperial doctor is too great.

At this moment, for the ministers, they would rather lose some of the decision-making power of state politics than lose most of the powers of the prime minister and the imperial historian who have already arrived.

But the problem is that the cost of the ministers to obtain this part of the power is too large, which is the eldest princess in exchange for sacrificing part of the imperial power, and the harm to the society is unimaginable.

Li Hong benefited the most, but at the same time, he also became the focus of contradictions, and became the common opponent of the Son of Heaven, the eldest princess, and the ministers of the DPRK and China.

The eldest princess gambled with Sheji again. She sacrificed part of her imperial power in order to make the ministers forced by Li Hong's threat to regain their side.

Thus forcing the ministers to back down and regain control of their authority. At this moment, the ministers had no choice but to succumb to the coercion of the eldest princess.

Taifu Cai Yong, Da Situ Cui Lie, Da Kekong Liu He, Taichang Xun You and other ministers entered the palace late at night to meet the eldest princess and discuss ways to weaken and balance Li Hong.

The ministers meant that they hoped that the eldest princess would not set up Shangshu**, but even so, Li Hong's authority was still very great.

Although the eldest princess is still in charge, Shang Shutai is the main decision-making body of state politics. Li Hong held military power, and now controlled the decision-making organs of the imperial court, and his power was so great that the power in the court was gradually unbalanced.

"Li Hong is not Huo Guang, and now is not the peaceful and prosperous era after the death of Emperor Xiaowu, we cannot risk the overthrow of Sheji and blindly imitate the official pattern of the year." Cui Lie said excitedly: "After Emperor Xiaowu died, Huo Guang and other ministers were ordered to assist Emperor Bi. Huo Guang is the younger brother of the hussar general Huo Quai, who has followed Emperor Xiaowu for more than 30 years, and Emperor Xiaowu trusts him very much, but the reason why Emperor Xiaowu let Huo Guang supervise Shangshutai as a great general and control the authority is not to let him maintain the stability of the society, but to let him use the power of Shangshutai in China and the DPRK to balance the clan forces at that time and the bureaucratic forces of the scholars and bureaucrats of foreign dynasties, so as to prevent social turmoil and ruin of the country. At that time, Liu Dan, the son of Emperor Xiaowu, in order to compete for the imperial throne, Prime Minister Shangguan Ji, Imperial Historian Sang Hongyang and others in order to regain the authority that was robbed by Shang Shutai, the two forces colluded with each other and joined forces against Huo Guang.

Liu Dan and Shangguan Ji had planned to launch a mutiny, but they were suppressed by Emperor Xiaozhao and Huo Guang. After the death of Liu Dan, the king of Yan, and Shangguan, the prime minister, the power of the court and the central government was checked, and Huo Guang was in charge of power for more than 20 years.

After two generations of emperors of Xiaozhao and Xiaoxuan, he assisted the two emperors to create

The situation of "Zhao and Xuan Zhongxing" fulfilled his promise to Emperor Xiaowu. But today's Han is not the Han of the past, and the two are not the same.

If His Royal Highness plans to follow Emperor Xiaowu's plan to support Gu and control the authority of Shangshutai with Li Hong, the general of the Great Sima, in order to balance the forces of the foreign dynasty and the forbidden China, and check and balance the imperial power and the relative power, it will definitely be a problem for raising tigers.

Today's great general is in charge of the army, with more than 200,000 troops in his hands, and his strength is extremely strong.

When the world is decided in the future, the monarch is weak and the minister is strong, with Li Hong's world-class exploits, how can anyone in the world know the Son of Heaven?

At that time, Li Hong was already involuntarily, even if he didn't want to usurp, others would force him to usurp.

"Boss, what do you say?" The eldest princess asked calmly and leisurely. Cui Lie looked at the glamorous face in front of him, and he was angry.

If it weren't for your eagerness to snatch the military and political power in Li Hong's hands, and if you hadn't pointed the finger at the rich men and lords, how could things have become the way they are today?

"I finally took back the military and political power in the hands of the general, and you will come to grab it immediately, as if I have swallowed it alone and will not give it to you. Well, now you're satisfied, you've got your wish. The official system has also been revised, and the prime minister has also picked you up, you should be content, right? The eldest princess showed a look of disdain on her face,

"Are you not satisfied? Do you want me to force the general to hand over his military power? ”

"I have just taken back the military and political power of the general's six states and four counties, and you will immediately oppose me and make him prime minister immediately." The eldest princess pursed her cherry red lips and complained very dissatisfied,

"Are you old fools? The general still has military power in his hands, and you let him be the prime minister, can I still keep the power in my hands? With the general in charge of all the powers, wouldn't he be in great danger to Sheji? Cai Yong, Cui Lie, Liu He, and Xun You looked at each other with helpless expressions.

The eldest princess blindly trusts the general because she loves the general. It's not the eldest princess's fault that she loves the general, but it's the eldest princess's fault to blindly trust the general.

Li Hong handed over the military and political power in his hands extremely happily, is it because you love him and trust him, so he was immediately moved to reciprocate?

This is the court of the Han Dynasty, not the courtyard of the family, and there is no love here. The general already felt threatened, a threat to his survival, and the reason why he was willing to hand over the military and political power happily was because he still had military power and an army in his hands, and he still had the strength to crush the opponent who threatened his survival into powder at any time.

The reason why the ministers of the foreign dynasty united to force the eldest princess to change the official system and let the general become the prime minister was to minimize the general's threat to Sheji.

Let him and the eldest princess form an antagonism, let the prime minister and the imperial power remain opposed, and rescue the Son of Heaven and the eldest princess from the abyss of defeat.

But the eldest princess obviously didn't understand the painstaking efforts of the foreign ministers. She believed that the general was close to the point of blindness, and she was unwilling to antagonize the general to the point of breaking with it, so she pushed the general to a more prominent position while satisfying the wishes of the foreign ministers.

In the eldest princess's view, let the general supervise Shangshutai, firstly, the general can control part of the prime minister's power instead of herself, so as not to always point the spearhead at the foreign ministers, and secondly, she can let the imperial power she control become more stable and more majestic because of the strong support of the general.

The eldest princess imitated the official structure left by Emperor Xiaowu when she was in charge of Gu, and let the general use the power in his hands to protect and strengthen the imperial power, suppress and restrain the power of the minister, and fight against all forces that provoke and threaten the imperial power.

The eldest princess didn't change her mind in the slightest. Cai Yong, Cui Lie and other foreign ministers did not give up the slightest intention of regaining power.

The two sides are arguing with each other, you ridicule me, each has its own reasoning, and no one will give in. Cai Yong, Cui Lie, and Liu He can't believe their eyes and ears now, the eldest princess opposite is the little girl who loves to cry back then?

The eldest princess has really grown up, and she can't accept old age. The ministers of the foreign dynasties took advantage of the opportunity of the revision of the official system, especially when Li Hong was no longer the post of prime minister, and almost took back most of the power of the ministers except for some of the decision-making powers of state affairs.

The reason why he is still arguing fiercely with the eldest princess now is that he is worried that Li Hong will use the strength in his hands to hold the Son of Heaven and the eldest princess hostage, and then actually control the imperial power.

In fact, letting Li Hong be the prime minister, and making the prime minister and the imperial power opposed, is far less conducive to the balance of power and the stability of the court than the current practice of the eldest princess.

Li Hong became the prime minister, but in fact he was already a minister, as long as he crossed the line slightly, the imperial power was useless.

The pattern of weak monarchs and strong ministers is very unfavorable to both rebuilding a strong imperial power and stabilizing society. On the contrary, if Li Hong was the great general of Sima and led the Shangshutai, he actually only controlled the military power and part of the decision-making power of state affairs.

Military power is necessary for the current pacification of the Zhongxing Han Dynasty in the world, and it must also be given to Li Hong.

There is also a part of the decision-making power of state affairs that is not completely controlled by Li Hong, and the eldest princess who is in charge of the imperial power and the prime minister who is in charge of most of the power have to share.

The decision-making of national politics needs to be collegial, and Li Hong cannot be the master alone. Now, Li Hong's power seems to have increased, but as long as Shangshutai does not go out independently, as long as the eldest princess firmly controls her imperial power, Li Hong's authority has not actually expanded, and he is restrained by the prime minister of the foreign dynasty and the forbidden son of heaven and the eldest princess, and it is difficult to do whatever he wants.

In this way, the prime ministers of the outer and outer dynasties, the Shangshutai of the Chinese dynasty and the great general Sima who supervised the middle dynasty, and the eldest princess of the inner dynasty and the forbidden dynasty formed a situation of mutual restraint and mutual restraint.

In particular, the Shangshutai of the Chinese Dynasty and the Great Sima Da General, who supervised the Chinese Dynasty, became a balance and buffer between the imperial power and the relative power.

In order to weaken the power of the foreign dynasties, the majestic Emperor Xiaowu deliberately increased the power of the Chinese dynasty, and at the same time arranged for the wise and brave relatives to serve as the general of the Great Sima to supervise the Chinese dynasty and help him contain and balance the foreign dynasties.

This bureaucracy played a role in stabilizing and revitalizing society during his lifetime and after his death. Although Wang Mang's rebellion was later created, this had nothing to do with the wisdom of Emperor Xiaowu, but because the imperial power was controlled by the queen mother, and it was easily seized by an ambitious relative like Wang Mang.

Today, the Son of Heaven is still young, and the eldest princess is a weak female stream, if Li Hong has ill intentions, it is easy to take advantage of the eldest princess's love and trust in him to easily get the imperial power.

How to restrain and weaken Li Hong's power, prevent Li Hong from taking away imperial power, and minimize Li Hong's threat to the society?

There was no way to restrain and weaken Li Hong's power.

"Since there is no way to restrain and weaken Li Hong's power, then we will find a way to consolidate and strengthen the imperial power." Xun You thought for a long time and said,

"The reason for Wang Mang's chaotic government and his relatives ruining the country is because the imperial system is weak and the harem lord is in power. Today's situation is the same as in the past, but fortunately, it is the eldest princess who is in charge of the harem today. We can take advantage of the opportunity to revise the official system to strengthen the eldest princess and protect, consolidate and strengthen the imperial power. Cai Yong, Cui Lie, Liu and the three of them have reached a dead end.

Xun You's words just reminded them and made their eyes suddenly brighten. A smug smile suddenly appeared on the eldest princess's face, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned with a little cunning and disdain.

"Your Highness, the establishment of Shang Shu ** will make Li Hong's power expand rapidly, which may stimulate his ambitions. Once he has the intention to usurp the position, with the strength in his hands, the outer court and the forbidden middle are powerless to stop it, so ......" Xun You arched his hand and said,

"Your Highness can take advantage of the opportunity to revise the official system to expand the power of the Inner Dynasty Shizhong Temple." Xun You suddenly thought of something, and his brows immediately furrowed.

Shizhong Temple, East Temple, and West Temple belong to the Inner Dynasty and live in the forbidden middle. Shizhong Temple is composed of scholars and officials such as Shizhong and Huangmen Shilang, who, together with the eunuchs of the east and west temples, are responsible for drafting and announcing government decrees to the emperor, and receiving the presentation of chapters, and are close ministers of the emperor.

Due to the strict distinction between the palace and the ban, Shizhong Temple later moved out of the ban. When the Jinyang court was rebuilt, it was strictly forbidden for eunuchs to get involved in politics, so Shizhong Temple moved back to the forbidden middle school.

If the power of the temple is expanded, the power of the forbidden temple will increase immediately, which may once again lead to eunuchs involved in politics and cause chaos in the society.

Xun You knew that his suggestion was inappropriate, so he immediately stopped talking.

"Lord Xun, how many days has the eunuch been killed? Are you determined to make the big man ......" The eldest princess looked at Xun You with a smile, but the meaning of her words made Xun You break out in a cold sweat.

"The minister lost his words, and he lost his words......" Xun Yu repeatedly accused. The eldest princess smirked,

"Lord Xun, you have a good idea. Since it is inconvenient for the three temples in the forbidden middle school to increase their power, then give weight to the Chinese book. In addition to Shangshutai, how about setting up a middle book supervisor? Cai Yong and the others were stunned for a moment, and then they had a feeling of being deceived.

No wonder the eldest princess was very happy to let the general supervise Shangshutai, it turned out that the eldest princess had already taken a countermeasure, she wanted to replace Shangshutai with the middle bookkeeper and continue to control the authority.

It's just that she herself didn't want to offend the general, so she set a trap to let the ministers of the foreign dynasty take advantage of the opportunity to revise the official system when they were unwilling to give up their power and not want the general to hold the imperial power hostage, so as to increase the strength of the eldest princess's control of the imperial power.

Now that the general wants to be angry, let's go to the trouble of the foreign minister. Although the official position of Zhongshu has a long history, it has long been abandoned, and the reason for this rebuilding is also to weaken the power of Shangshutai.

At the same time that Emperor Xiaowu reused Shangshu and other Chinese officials, he also appointed eunuchs as Zhongshu Confessor's Order, responsible for inheriting the edict and performing the edict.

This is because Shangshu can only perform in the palace and pavilion, and can only be summoned to the province under special circumstances.

In the first year of the Later Yuan Dynasty (88 B.C.), there was an incident in the forbidden middle that the servants shot Ma Holuo and his younger brother Ma Tong into the palace to assassinate, and after that, the Chinese officials could not enter and leave the forbidden middle at will.

Therefore, Emperor Xiaowu inherited the will with the order of the Chinese scribe, and at the same time added the Chinese book to the forbidden province, drafted an edict for the emperor, and transferred part of the authority of the Shangshu to the forbidden province.

Later, Zhongshu undertook the task of transmitting the order, and Shangshu was transcribed and promulgated outside the palace, so that in the original operating organization, a new transfer station was set up in the forbidden middle as a new imperial office.

In the Dynasty of Emperor Xiaoxuan, in order to deprive Huo Guang of his power, Emperor Xiaoxuan ordered Zhongshuling to go directly to Sima Gate to get the Shangsuo seal, bypassing Shangshutai to strengthen his power.

As a result, the Chinese book became again

"Cardinals of the State",

"The foundation of politics". At the beginning, Emperor Xiaowu reused Shangshu, the original intention was to limit the power of the minister and improve work efficiency.

However, most of the scholars were foreign relatives and their power was too heavy, so they used Zhongshu to weaken Shangshu, in fact, in order to reduce the power of foreign relatives and ministers, so this institution was later unanimously opposed by foreign relatives and ministers.

In the first four years of the founding of Emperor Xiaocheng (29 BC), Wang Mang ruled the dictatorship, abolished Zhongshu, and restored the system of the dual track of the ministers and the three princes.

When the Jinyang court was rebuilt, because the ministers had lingering fears about the country, it was strictly forbidden for the officials of the inner court to interfere in politics.

But the eldest princess is in charge, formally

"Do not accept the minister", and although Shangshu is in charge of various government affairs, because of the difference between the palace and the ban, he generally rarely enters the ban.

In order to facilitate the eldest princess's exercise of power, and also to weaken and contain the power of Shang Shutai, the post of Zhongshu was deliberately restored, and most of its officials were cronies in the former eldest princess's mansion.

If the Chinese book institution is changed to the middle book supervision agency, then the number of officials will inevitably increase, and it is not suitable to put it in the forbidden middle school, and it needs to be moved to the palace.

There was a Shangshutai in the palace, and the functions and powers of the two institutions were close to each other, and they were both in the palace, which was obviously not suitable. The addition of the middle secretary was to weaken and restrict Li Hong's power and expand and consolidate the imperial power, so he could only move Shangshutai outside the palace.

Shangshutai was originally a Chinese and Korean institution, but after moving outside the palace, the emperor could not go to the palace every day to discuss matters, so Shangshutai immediately became a foreign court.

If Shangshutai continues to be subordinate to the Shaofu, it is obviously extremely inappropriate, so it can only be separated from the Shaofu and become an independent institution, an independent institution between the foreign dynasty and the Chinese and Korean dynasties.

Shangshu ** was established, and the institution was huge, but the functions and powers overlapped with those of the Chinese and Korean scholars. The purpose of adding the middle secretary was originally to protect the imperial power, and after Shang Shutai moved out of the palace, of course, he could not compete with the middle secretary for imperial power.

Then, there is one power left in Shangshutai to fight for, and that is the relative power. Shang Shutai went to the outer court, and competed with the foreign court for power, and the two institutions fought each other, and the fisherman benefited from the imperial power controlled by the eldest princess and the eldest princess.

At this point, the purpose of the eldest princess was finally exposed. She first gave the ministers of the foreign dynasty the coveted power, and then did not hesitate to sacrifice part of the imperial power to let the general supervise the lord of Shangshutai in power, and used this to threaten the ministers of the foreign courts, forcing the ministers of the foreign dynasties to take the initiative to ask for the protection of the imperial power.

The ministers of the outer dynasty were unwilling to give up the power that had already been obtained, and in order to prevent the eunuchs from interfering in politics, they did not dare to increase the power of the inner court, so they had to move the Zhongshu composed of scholars and officials to the palace as the Zhongchao, and increase the power of the Zhongshu to protect the imperial power.

As a result, Shang Shutai had to move out of the palace and become an independent institution. After Shangshutai, which was supervised by General Sima Da, arrived at the Outer Dynasty, it was on an equal footing with the Outer Dynasty, because it controlled part of the decision-making power of national affairs, and had a certain advantage over the Outer Dynasty, so the two inevitably had to compete for power.

The eldest princess effortlessly controlled the middle and inner dynasties, protected and consolidated the imperial power, and was in the midst of a great battle for power between Shangshutai and the outer dynasties.

As long as the imperial power is stable, the competition for power will not affect the fundamentals. The foreign governments do not carry out orders, and there are still Shangshutai.

Shangshutai and the Chinese and Korean dynasties are facing each other, as well as the foreign courts. In this way, the three contain each other and restrain each other, although the court will not be calm, but at least the power will no longer threaten the imperial power.

As for Li Hong, the general of Dakema, he was at the center of the power vortex, and even if he had the intention of seizing imperial power, it would be many years later.

Now he must first unite China and North Korea to settle the fetters of the foreign courts, otherwise he will not want to calm the world smoothly.

The four ministers, Cai Yong, Cui Lie, Liu He, and Xun You, left expressionlessly, and the frustration and anger in their hearts reached the extreme, but there was nowhere to vent.

Before Cai Yong left, he looked at the eldest princess who was standing at the door and respectfully bid farewell to him, and then asked,

"Are you really my disciple?" The eldest princess smiled slightly,

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