(Wipe your nose and shout: Ask for a ticket!) ）

Gongsun Lan stood behind Li Jing, and a pair of hands like green onions and jade were pressing on Li Jing's shoulders to help him massage and knead.

The strength is not heavy, not light, just right, Li Jing slightly closed his eyes to enjoy this rare relaxation, smelling the fragrance like an orchid, Li Jing's whole body and mind relaxed.

"San Lang wants to replace the eunuchs with the cabinet?"

Li Jing closed his eyes and hummed softly, in history, there were three dynasties in China that caused the greatest scourge of eunuchs, namely the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, but whether it was the Eastern Han Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, these eunuchs were really 108,000 miles away from the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty. Since Suzong, almost all the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were established by eunuchs, and the emperors became puppets of the eunuchs, and even two of them were killed by eunuchs, among which Tang Xianzong of Lianyuan and Zhongxing died at the hands of eunuchs.

Moreover, the eunuchs of the Tang Dynasty were autocratic, and the northern division of the eunuchs was pressed on the south of the prime ministers, and they also controlled the forbidden army of the imperial court.

The dictatorship of eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty and the division of feudal towns were two huge tumors that destroyed the Tang Dynasty.

Since Li Jing knows these two points well, he naturally has to guard against them.

The eunuchs were able to interfere in politics, largely because the emperor needed to check and balance the rights of the prime ministers, and as a result, he began to appoint the eunuchs who were closest to him, and the eunuchs were the most likely to interfere in politics.

Therefore, if you want to put an end to eunuchs interfering in politics, the key is that someone can replace the role of eunuchs and help the emperor balance the power of the prime minister. After thinking about it, Li Jing decided to create a new cabinet to replace these eunuchs to balance power.

But the cabinet must not be too powerful, otherwise it will become a party struggle in the end. And party strife was also a major scourge that destroyed the Tang Dynasty.

Think about it. Li Jing was the most rebellious and set up a cabinet in the early Ming Dynasty.

However, this cabinet is different from the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. The cabinet set up by Li Jing was actually equivalent to the Ming Dynasty's celebrant supervisor.

There are a total of nine scholars in the cabinet, all of whom are selected to serve as those extremely talented literati, and the grades are set to the fifth grade, which is far from the third grade of the six books compared to the second grade of the left and right servants. The Cabinet Scholar is Li Jing's advisor, and has the position of consultant and counselor, as well as the position of economic banquet lecturer. The most important thing is that they will follow Li Jing's wishes. Approve all the draft opinions submitted by Shangshu Province.

All the folds were first submitted to the cabinet for exchange, and the cabinet submitted them to Li Jing for review, and then handed them over to the Shangshu Province to be responsible for drafting opinions, and then the cabinet reported to Li Jing for approval, and the cabinet wrote and approved the red according to Li Jing's wishes.

Shangshu Province holds the power to vote, and the cabinet approves the red power on behalf of the minister.

In order to prevent the cabinet from being autocratic, the appointees were all extremely prestigious and well-behaved scholars, and their grades were not high, set at the fifth grade, which was much lower than that of the officials in Shangshu Province. It's more critical. Cabinet members serve three-year terms and cannot be re-elected. Re-entry must be completed after a gap of more than three years.

Keeping power in the hands of one person for a long time is the best way to check and balance.

In the past few years, due to the prosperity of Dengzhou, as well as the emphasis on education and Chongwen, a large number of scholars have poured into Dengzhou and other places in Northeast Province. Many of them were famous literati poets at this time.

Some of them have already left the Northeast Road, but some of them are only serving as advisors and advisors in the Mandarin Court for the time being.

This time, Li Jing selected a few of them as cabinet members.

Today's cabinet list is Luo Ye, Cao Ye, Xu Tang, Yu Tanzhi, Nie Yizhong, Li Dong, Zheng Gu, Zhou Harri, and Pi Rixiu.

Originally, Li Jing also planned to appoint Cui Zhiyuan and Du Zhongwu as cabinet members, but when he thought about their status as relatives, he still didn't want to start this way, and only selected nine highly famous literati as cabinet members.

These people are all famous literati now, some of them have also been officials, and a few of them have tried and failed, but they have a good reputation.

Among them, Cao Ye, a Jinshi in the middle of the year, has served as the secretary of the balance section, Dr. Taichang, the servant of the ministry, and the history of Yangzhou Thorn. Later, he resigned and returned to Li, and now he has moved to Dengzhou. Li Jing personally visited him, and after talking, he felt that this person not only had a literary name, but was also very familiar with government affairs, so he had decided to appoint Cao Ye as the first assistant of the cabinet, and then Luo Ye, who had served as a county magistrate in Jeju, as the second assistant.

The literati cherished feathers, especially these celebrities, and the official position of the cabinet bachelor was not high, but it was powerful. However, compared with ordinary officials, these people are less likely to wield power.

Li Jing now has five provinces, thirty states and one hundred counties, and there must be a strong central court.

After listening to Li Jing explain the new system as if he was talking, Gongsun Lan also figured out a lot.

"Cui Li's two servants and the six Shangshu and the generals, they seem to also support San Lang's new system, I believe that with everyone's support, this new system can be implemented quickly and will soon see results." Gongsun Lan comforted Li Jing.

Li Jing nodded, there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and now there are not many benefits touched by the restructuring, and Li Jing really doesn't have to worry too much. After all, his army was actually a new-style army from the beginning, and although it later incorporated a lot of subordinate troops, it had been integrated into it after reorganization. Because of this, this is an army that is completely different from other feudal towns and imperial forbidden armies, and Li Jing is sure to implement the new system at this time.

As the two were talking, they heard Zhao Jiang report outside: "The king of the county, Gongsun Zhongcheng, there is someone from the Supervision Department outside." ”

Gongsun Lan immediately went out of the house, and a moment later walked back with a letter. Gongsun Lan served as the Zhongcheng of the Supervision Department, and also served as Lang Zhong of the Investigation Department of the Fourth Division, responsible for analyzing exchange information and coordinating the sharing of information among various divisions.

Gongsun Lan came in and handed the letter to Li Jing.

Li Jing took the letter, the mailbox had been opened, and when he took out the letter, it was a secret letter, composed of Arabic numerals, Chinese characters and various symbols. couldn't help but smile bitterly and returned it to Gongsun Lan, the letters in the intelligence system were transmitted, using the code code he had designed at the beginning. It's just that even so, at this time, he couldn't understand a word in the face of this ghost marker.

"This is the information that has just been transmitted back from Chang'an, and it was transmitted with flying pigeons, fast horses and fast boats, and it only took two days to get here from Chang'an." Gongsun Lan said with a chuckle.

Chang'an to the newly renamed Liaoyang Liaodong City. It's 3,500 miles away. The letter was delivered within two days. It's remarkable. It seems that the pigeon flying system of the Ombudsman has contributed greatly. However, if you can use the letter sent by flying pigeons, 800 miles of expedited, and speedboats, the content of it will definitely not be simple.

"What's the news?"

After Gongsun Lan translated carefully, her face couldn't help but change slightly, and she said to Li Jing: "Ruzhou, which is stationed in the eastern capital, recruited soldiers to reward the Taishu for the Shangyuan Festival, and under the leadership of Li Guangting, the soldier and horse envoy, made chaos in the eastern capital, burned Anxi Gate, burned the market, and went from Changxia Gate. Followed by. The army in the river was in turmoil again, and the marquis of Yu in the river was in rebellion, and the city was empty. ”

Hearing the news, Li Jing couldn't help frowning. Not long ago, the imperial court set up a defense line in the south of Ruzhou just deserved to disperse, the loyal army was killed in the Xue Neng mutiny, the loyal army was divided into three, and the soldiers of the probation army in Xuzhou were killed 3,000, in fact, the soldiers had fled back to Xuzhou. Even the supreme commanders of the defensive line, Zheng and Ru, intercepted the envoys, and the Taining army made Qi Kerang, afraid that the loyal army would rebel and had already led the army to withdraw.

This time. There was another military rebellion in the river, and even the eastern capital was in chaos.

"After Huang Chao crossed the Huaishui and annihilated Cao Quanyang in Sizhou. Then he entered the realm of Ying, Song, Xu, and Yan, and the people fled to the ground. At present, it has captured Ruzhou Nanshenzhou, and easily crossed the Lishui defense line, and has captured Ruzhou and approached the eastern capital. ”

"What is the reaction of the imperial court?" Li Jing asked. Originally, there was Cui Anqian on the side of the Eastern Capital, and Li Jing thought that Huang Chao couldn't please him. But now it seems that Huang Chao did not make a move, and the tens of thousands of horses and horses in the Lishui defense line in Ruzhou and Chen Xu directly collapsed. Cui Anqian is now in the Eastern Capital, behind is the chaotic army of Wang Chongrong in Hezhong, and in front is the 300,000 troops of Huangchao that swelled up again after entering Henan, and the pressure is very great.

"The imperial court took the envoy of the river festival and the Tongping chapter Li Du as the prince and young master, and added the queen to the river with the power of the king. Zhou Qi is the envoy of the loyal army and the history of Xuzhou, Qin Zongquan is the history of Caizhou, and Lu Yanhong is the history of Chenzhou. ”

Li Jing couldn't help sneering, Zhou Qi, Qin Zongquan, Lu Yanhong and others killed the envoys and assassinated Shi Zili, and now the imperial court not only did not dare to pursue it, but officially recognized the position they had taken, which showed that the imperial court was now extremely empty. And Wang Chongrong, who was in trouble in the river, also successfully drove away the original Jiedu envoy and became the queen himself.

Internal and external troubles, even if the imperial court has improved in recent years, but in the end, the result is still a mess.

"The imperial court issued an order to summon Zheng Congyan to the west of Hebei to recruit envoys to transfer the camp north of Yinshan to Li Keyong, and summoned him to lead the Hedong Army, and the deputy ambassador of the Datong Army, Xin Yan, the Zhenwu Army Jiedu envoy Yu Xuan, the Tiande Army Jiedu envoy Helian Duo, the Xia Yin Jiedu envoy Tuoba Sigong, the Heyang Jiedu envoy Li Zhuo, and the six towns each led their own town's soldiers and horses to the south to crusade against Huangchao."

Li Keyong actually became a camp envoy in Hebei from all sides, and the imperial court gave the right to control the five cavalry divisions of Anqing, Sage, Qibi, Tatar, and Xi, and was fully responsible for the encirclement and suppression of the Hebei rebels.

"Huangchao spread to all towns, 'each should defend the base, don't offend my front!'" I will enter the eastern capital, that is, to Jingyi, and ask myself for sin, without foresight of everyone. '300,000 troops went straight to Luoyang, Qi Kerang fought with him, and his troops were defeated in a battle, and in the land of Luoyang, Cui Anqian only had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses. Zheng Congyan and others were far away in Hedong, and it was difficult to reach for a while. The Son of Heaven has ordered Cui Anqian, Zhang Zimian, Du Xian and others to abandon the eastern capital of Luoyang and retreat to Tongguan to protect Chang'an! ”

When Li Jing heard that Li Yi actually ordered the eastern capital to give up Luoyang and retreat to Tongguan to protect Chang'an, he also felt a little incredible. Although Luoyang was destroyed in the Anshi Rebellion, it was still the capital of the Central Plains, and its defense power was self-evident. What's more, although the defense line of Lishui was lost, Qi Kerang was defeated again, the loyal army was in chaos, and the army in Hezhong was in chaos, but Cui Anqian still had more than 20,000 people in his hands. The Heyang army is also on the other side of the Yellow River in Luoyang, as long as it can hold on to the city, Zheng Congyan and other officers and soldiers of the six towns can also arrive quickly.

But now the Son of Heaven has ordered the abandonment of the Eastern Capital, the reason is self-evident, they are most worried about their own lives. Although it may be possible to hold the eastern capital, if Huangchao directly attacks Tongguan, as soon as Tongguan is broken, it will be a soldier coming to Chang'an City. At this time, although Luoyang is good, it is less than one-ten-thousandth of Chang'an.

It's just that they haven't thought about what kind of shock Luoyang, the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, will cause once it falls into the hands of the enemy?

Thinking of this, Li Jing couldn't help but feel a little tightness in his chest and upset. Although he had looked forward to the arrival of this day, when this day was really coming, Li Jing still had an unspeakable annoyance in his heart.

The Tang Empire is about to be destroyed! (To be continued......)