610 Slap Your Majesty, we also have a part in this country

“…… All in all, a country is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the waves are surging, and the ministers ask Your Majesty to set up a cabinet and return the government to the prime minister! ”

Li Zhushou seemed to be memorizing a manuscript, and he counted the current situation in a big way, and finally threw out such a sentence.

Li Shi's good mood was completely destroyed, and Tie Qing said slowly: "This is what you are talking about...... I'm about to catch up with Emperor Yang of Sui? ”

Of course, he felt uncomfortable, counting the plight of this country, wasn't it counting down that the emperor was not a good family? is still blatantly reaching out to ask for power, so soon to throw away himself as a well digger?

Li Shi looked at Liu Xingchun, Peng Xianzhong, Gu Xiyi and other Qingtian faction elders, and didn't quite understand why these guys were also "in cahoots" with Li Zhushou.

Peng Xianzhong and Gu Xiyi bowed their heads and counted the ants, and Liu Xingchun said: "In this difficult situation, the ministers are powerless to share their worries with Your Majesty, and I hope that Your Majesty will condemn you!" Today, the ministers and Li Zhongcheng are united, and they ask His Majesty to return the government to the prime minister, and they are also relieved of their responsibilities! ”

There was still some gambling flavor in his words, and Li Xian was stunned for a moment and suddenly realized.

This emperor's anger is really unacceptable, and he actually smoked it so much that he even wanted to crook the original meaning of his subordinates' words.

Li Shi looked at Li Zhushou again: "Do you want the power of the prime minister or the power of the cabinet?" ”

This sentence went straight to the point, and the heavy atmosphere of the government hall suddenly dissipated, and the ministers let out a breath of air, the emperor was clear-minded after all, and he had understood their intentions.

Li Xi had already made a self-examination before, and of course he understood his subordinates' thoughts at this time, and this question was even more about the specific details.

It is now the fifth year of the Holy Dao, and there are still five years left before Li Xian's ten-year promise to return. However, Li Xian was gradually liberalizing the management of daily affairs, but whenever there were cases and regulations on the examples, he handed over the affairs to the ministries of the three provinces and played the role of post-event supervision.

But such a division of the monarch's power is fragmented after all, and Li Xi still holds the most important personnel and financial powers, in a strict sense, the three provinces and the ministries are only executive agencies under him, and they do not have the ability to operate independently.

Therefore, when Li Xi talked to the courtiers about the future court structure, he conceived two plans, one was the Song system and the other was the Ming system. The former focuses on the prime minister's power, and the latter focuses on the cabinet power. In terms of the division of power, the Song system is the emperor to the prime minister, and the Ming system is the emperor to the cabinet as a whole. Comparatively speaking, under the Song system, the power of the emperor was still heavy, and the Ming system was much lighter.

The Anglo-Chinese state system is too different from that of the Song and Ming dynasties, and the power of the court is limited to administrative affairs, rather than the overall national politics, so Li Xi has no taboos about these two plans, and the focus that needs to be considered is how to integrate and balance the executive power with the military power held by the Commander-in-Chief and the Privy Council, the power of the East and West Houses that must be held in the future, and the legal and financial powers held by the Department of Justice and Accounting should be integrated and balanced.

Now that Li Shi asked, Li Zhushou resolutely said: "The ministers think that the opportunity to establish a cabinet has arrived. ”

Li Xi squinted his eyes and asked again: "Then what is the first thing to do in this newly established cabinet?" ”

The matter of establishing a cabinet is, on the one hand, to hand over power, and on the other hand, to pass the buck. Li Zhushou and these courtiers are not idiots, they all know that there is a gain, there must be a pay, and the establishment of a cabinet is essentially a transaction between the emperor and the court.

Li Zhushou paused for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Negotiate peace with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and stabilize the situation in the north, so that you can concentrate on the south and finish the unfinished work of the South Seas!" ”

Li Xianxin said that this was indeed the case, pointing to these subordinates, he smiled bitterly: "Do you want the first cabinet to become the black pot cabinet?" ”

The important ministers of the court have fully understood the significance of the national policy of first the south and then the north, and now that Yinghua is expanding due to the expansion of the country, there are conflicts on all sides, and it is necessary to cool down the chaotic dispute with the north in the south of the Yangtze River. Negotiating peace will not only prevent the Anglo-Chinese from getting too deep into Jiangnan, but will also help promote the economic strategy of embezzling Jiangnan with commercial goods.

But whether it is the initiative to propose or to take over the book from the north, this responsibility is not suitable for Li Shi to bear. Asking for cabinet power and letting the first cabinet take on this responsibility is the down payment price for the court to get cabinet power.

Li Xi pondered for a long time, and shook his head resolutely: "Whether the cabinet stands or not has nothing to do with the situation at this time, so there is no need to turn the two sides on this matter." You have worked hard and competently in the past few years, and I can't bear it. ”

Since it is a black cauldron, then this first cabinet will definitely have a few people, although it can be recovered in the future, but such a toss, Li Xi feels that it is not worth it.

"Your Majesty is benevolent, and the ministers are grateful for the five years!" ..., Tang Youzeng, Shi Yizhi and Yang Chongdou and other original "Qing officials" were very moved, bowed down and bowed, no way, they stayed in the Kangxi era for too long, and the holy monarch complex was difficult to erase.

"If you are really determined to negotiate peace, you must not let Your Majesty take the blame himself!"

Liu Xingchun, Peng Xianzhong and other old men of the Qingtian faction almost shouted, and they agreed to cooperate with Li Zhushou to fight for the power of the cabinet, which was based on this reason. The emperor's reputation cannot be tarnished, let alone questioned by those who are eager to recover China as soon as possible. The North and the South negotiate peace, this matter is too easy to remind people of the Yuanyuan Alliance.

Li Xian frowned and said: "I, the emperor, am not the monarch's father, but the lord of the government of a country, I must be responsible for everything!" The matter of peace between the north and the south is not the master of the emperor, but the master of the traitorous ministers, who will believe it? ”

His tone was a little heavier: "Besides, I do want to return power to the prime minister, but that's just an internal matter!" Foreign affairs and military affairs, in my lifetime, I, the founding king, will never let go! The affairs of the north and the south were foreign affairs, and the Manchus were enemy states. Even if you want to set up a cabinet, the cabinet will not be able to control this matter! ”

Li Zhushou stiffened his neck rarely: "Even if the cabinet can't manage foreign affairs, it should have the right to make suggestions for His Majesty to decide." ”

This is also indirectly behind the black pot, as long as the cabinet suggests, even if Li Shi is the one who finally makes the decision, the emotions of the people can be on the cabinet.

From the perspective of dividing the power of the monarchy, this is also because the central bureaucracy is not satisfied with only exercising administrative executive power, but also hopes to have a place in the power of state policymaking, and at the same time leave a door for the cabinet to compete for the power to make decisions in the future.

Li Xianxin said: It is really the innate nature of the bureaucratic class to struggle for power. Now that party politics has not yet taken shape, let you bureaucrats control the national policy, so how can we do it?

Just as he was about to reprimand this, Li Zhushou said again: "Your Majesty, according to the Emperor's Constitution, this country also has our part......

Li Shi choked, and the other subordinates also coughed, this is really ...... It's so straightforward.

After a long while, Li Xiancai said: "This is true, even so, we will carry this black pot together." ”

Li Xi also figured it out, and he was lamenting that his ability was limited and it was impossible to control everything. Now that the subordinates are not willing to be a mouthpiece, they want power and responsibility, so what is there to hesitate about? Besides, this cabinet is not the same as the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, he is still in charge of the Privy Council, and the East and West Houses will gradually assume the power of deliberation, so let this cabinet gradually evolve in the direction of the State Council.

The Anglo-Chinese political pattern is pregnant with drastic changes, and ordinary Chinese people have not yet felt it too obviously, but many people are also like Li Zhushou, a group of important ministers in the court, who are unwilling to be silent and unwilling to be just bystanders. is the same as Li Zhushou's words against Li Shi, Yinghua is now their country. The China opened by Yinghua is their China.

Fengxian County, Songjiang Prefecture, the smoke of gunpowder lingered, the artillery fire was flying, a section of the city wall was cracked into sand, earth and masonry under the bombardment of 30 catties of artillery, and the Yinghua grenadiers in armor swarmed in, but they were blocked by a larger crowd. The fireworks exploded, the bullets rained down, and in a short time, the two sides were already in a fierce hand-to-hand fight.

The long sound of a long horn in a descending tone rose from the rear, and the grenadiers covered each other and retreated to the rear. But about a hundred grenadiers stuck to the gap, unwilling to take a step back.

"Yu Zhenghua! Why not retreat yet? Are you going to disobey military orders!? ”

"Lou Benzhong, such a good opportunity, how can we retreat......"

The sentry commander who led his subordinates to fight to the death waved his sword and slashed back a Qing soldier, and then turned his head and shouted sharply.

"We are Xinhui people!"

"Why did we join the army!? It is to use our blood to wash away the debts of the new society! ”

"We are not only Xinhui people, we are also Anglo-Chinese!"

Lou Benzhong stopped, he smiled, and stood side by side with Yu Zhenghua.

"Good! Here, let everyone see the loyalty of the new people! ”

However, more than 200 people, like nails blocking the gap, the Qing soldiers, who were about to roll up like a frenzy, were also splashed with blood by this line of defense.

"Xinhui people, die a dignified death!"

The shouts reached the rear position, and Huang Shen scolded: "I should have known that I shouldn't have let those Xinhui madmen go up!" None of them take their lives seriously! ***！ ”

He roared at his subordinates, "Attack! Keep attacking! Take down Fengxian, and then treat them well for the crime of disobedience! ”

The reinforcements rushed up, and through the binoculars, he saw the figure that was constantly falling in the gap, Huang Shen's eyes were red, and he muttered: "What does the new meeting have to do with the old meeting, you are all Lao Tzu's soldiers!" Fengxian is only twenty or thirty miles away from Longmen, and the sound of gunfire in the direction of Fengxian can be vaguely heard outside Longmen. Under the dart flags of several dart boards, a group of dart heads who were guarding the goods and preparing to go on the road were restless and kept looking in the direction of Fengxian.

"I can't help it!"

Hou Dart of the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau ripped off the button on his collar and breathed heavily.

"Back then, the brothers were in Shaozhou, Chenzhou, and Changsha, and they fought with the Tartars in the dark. Now that we have finally started fighting with the Tartars in Jiangnan, we have become ordinary people who stand by and watch! ”

"The court has found a good way for us to live, and our lives are comfortable, but our hearts are always unsettled, and the days of brothers working together seem to be impossible to get back."

"Why can't you find it back? It's because we're too far away from the sound of gunfire now! ”

Other darts were also talking loudly, all of them retired veterans.

"When we beat Kangxi's army, the red-clothed soldiers in front of us were still snotty, begging for food and drink."

"Lao Tzu is the Eagle Yang Army, or the era when Wing Chun Niang Niang led the Eagle Yang Army to fight Zhangpu. Now this Eagle Yang Army, even the Tartar Jiangnan soldiers are grinning, it is really not as good as the generation! ”

"Those little bastards, stepping on our shoulders, are still so weak, they really should go back to the furnace for good training!"

Li Shun was next to him, he was one of the owners of this batch of commercial goods, and he was indignant when he heard what the darts said, he tasted the taste, and smiled at Hou Darthead: "You are jealous, jealous of those recruits." ”

Hou Darttou pouted: "Jealous of those new tenders? ”

Then his face changed, and his eyes were still spewing fire: "That's right! Lao Tzu is jealous of them! Dressed in red, carrying a musket, listening to the beat of the drums, walking forward, being covered by his brothers on the left and right, and marching towards the enemy step by step! I was so scared that I was going to rush out of my and urine, but when I saw the enemy's face that was even more afraid than myself, I forgot everything. That feels...... It's really, so cool! ”

The darts have spoken one after another, and the more they talk, the more lively they become.

"Our cannon is ringing non-stop, and a ** cannon wind is passing overhead......"

"The captains, the sentry chiefs, wielding their sabers with vigour, always have to stand at the front of the line."

"The flag is never unfurled on the battlefield, but we always seem to hear it whirring and curling......"

Speaking of military flags all the way, including Li Shun, everyone couldn't help but look behind them.

At the gate of the Dragon Gate, the fiery red is the bottom, and the banner of the golden double dragon embroidered in the middle flutters in the wind, making a hunting sound.

"That's not the sound of the military flag, it's the sound of the national flag......"

Hou Dart whispered to himself.

The pedestrians in front of them suddenly shouted: "There are Tartar rangers in Nanqiao Town!" ”

Hou Darttou said again: "Lao Tzu...... Can't help it! ”

With a hula, he tore off the cotton robe on the outside, revealing a fiery red, copper buckle placket, and a bronze star embroidered on his shoulder, which was the uniform of the British-Chinese Army Warrant Officer.

"Hit the Tartars!"

Hou raised his arms and shouted, and the darts changed into the army uniforms they had always cherished in an instant. Everyone looked at each other, laughed in unison, and even carried their uniforms with them, it seemed that they had already planned to reload.

Looking at Li Shun's side again, he and his spice company employees changed into a gray colonial military uniform, Li Shun smiled at Hou Daotou: "I have always had military status, and I am under the jurisdiction of the Demon Governor." ”

Whether red or gray, active or retired, the caravan of hundreds of people was transformed into an army, wrapped in a thick murderous aura and marching forward. The Qing soldiers and sentinels near Nanqiao Town retreated in a hurry, still exclaiming in their hearts, the Southern Barbarian army is advancing north!

Longmen, Jiangnan Xingying, Han Zaixing gritted his teeth and said: "Peace? Korea-China ...... There are traitors! ”

Fan Jin smiled bitterly, fortunately, this matter was first proposed by Li Zhushou, the first assistant of the newly appointed cabinet, if the emperor said it in person first, it would really hurt the hearts of the army.

"Fengxian took it down, Bai Daolong of Jinshanwei rode the wall again, and then occupied Nanqiao Town, and there was protection on three sides of the Dragon Gate, so it was impossible to surround Marseille."

Fan Jin said lightly, Han Zaixing had a bitter face, he was going to be a turtle with a shrunken head?

"Your left division can't stop here forever, once the situation between the north and the south stabilizes, it is estimated that there will be a big war on the Burmese side......"

Of course, Fan Jin knew the thoughts of his subordinates, and when he mentioned such a sentence again, Han Zaixing's eyes lit up, and he asked urgently: "Governor, can we go to Myanmar?" ”……，