"Zhang Tang, Yan Yi!" Liu Che took a step forward and called out the names of the two men.

"The minister is here!" Zhang Tang and Yan Yi hurriedly came out of the ranks.

Liu Che pointed to the second row of wooden plaques and said to the two of them: "From now on, a qiē document and proclamation in the lonely palace will be sorted out and collected by Ji Qing and then reviewed by the second secretary and then reported to the second secretary, and all the expenses and income should be reported to the second secretary, and the promotion and transfer of officials of one qiē size will be issued by the second secretary except for the edict of the Son of Heaven and the edict of the East Palace!" ”

Zhang Tang and Yan Yi glanced at each other, and they could see the shock and surprise in each other's eyes.

If that's the case, then the two of them have too much power!

In charge of government decrees, but also in charge of finances, and even more in charge of the promotion and depreciation of officials.

This is a small prime minister's mansion!

The Prime Minister's Mansion of the Han Dynasty is a behemoth with thousands of officials in charge of the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials.

Liu Che smiled at the corner of his mouth.

Prime Minister, a position created during the Warring States period to adapt to the increasingly fierce wars and diplomacy of foreign countries, has actually gradually fulfilled its historical mission.

From the middle and late stages of the piggy reign, ancient China gradually realized the threat of the power of the prime minister to the monarchy, and at the same time, absolute power led to absolute corruption.

After experiencing the three prime ministers of Tian Wei, Li Cai, and Zhuang Qingzhai, especially Tian Wei, who used the power of the prime minister and disregarded the people's livelihood, he actually broke the embankment of the Yellow River, flooded the mouth of the gourd, and diverted the Yellow River. Overhead Prime Minister.

With that lesson of Little Pig, how could Liu Che create a deformed monster again.

Ancient Chinese politics was on the balance of checks and balances. In the entire history of mankind on Earth, it has been remarkable.

Later generations of Omi ghost animals boasted of the separation of powers, but in fact, this is all the old ancestors of the Chinese who played rotten, and what was left.

The fault is not Jiashen's change, Wu Sangui led the Manchu Qing Dynasty into the customs, and the world of later generations. Who is Boos, that's two words.

There is no country that knows more about balance and checks and balances than China, the old empire.

Liu Che smiled and said, "Don't be happy with the two Qing families...... Let Erqing take care of this. There may not be much power, but there are a lot of things! ”

In essence, Zhang Tang and Yan Yi are responsible for the work of the lower provinces in later generations, mainly a work of running errands and passing on.

And because it's just a palace plus 72 square kilometers of Sixian Garden. So. The power is really not there, at best it is similar to the authority of the county order.

On top of that, the two of them don't have the power to decide and choose.

For example, the decision on the promotion of those orders and those people is not up to them, and the two of them mainly play the role of supervision and review.

Of course, although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

This new agency. It is bound to be enriched with a sufficient number of officials.

When the time comes, it will depend on whether Zhang Tang is capable or Yan is great.

Liu Che thought for a moment. continued: "Shang Rong, Yi Zong, the two Qing family will help the family servants to deal with these miscellaneous things, especially Shang Rong, Qing has done it in Shangshutai, and he brings more righteousness!" ”

"No!" Merchant and righteous worship in the column.

Others don't understand the prince's setting, but Shang Rong understands it very well.

Didn't he do this in Shangshutai in the past?

Organize documents, review documents and decrees, and supervise the expenditures and revenues of the Shaofu Yamen, which are counted every year.

Although the matter is trivial, it is the key to the entire Shaofu Yamen being able to play its role in the midst of many frauds and corruption.

Because Shangshutai is an institution directly responsible to the Son of Heaven, the final results of their audits and audits will be presented to the king.

Liu Che looked at it, and there seemed to be people who didn't quite understand it until now, so he said to Shang Rong: "Shang Qing, you can explain!" ”

When Shang Rong heard this, he first kowtowed and said: "The minister is stupid, he may not be right, and his understanding is wrong, please atone for his sins first!" ”

Then, he stood up and bowed to his colleagues on both sides, and said, "Gentlemen, if the contemptible people understand correctly, what the family said is probably that the Ministry of Affairs is responsible for collecting all documents and orders, passing them on to the Ministry of Affairs, which will review them, and then submit them to the Ministry of Household Affairs!" ”

As soon as he said this, many people immediately understood.

Zhang Tang and Yan Yi's hot inner temperature also cooled down slightly.

This subordinate province, it seems, the authority seems to be just that.

But if you think about it, as an auditing body, how can it be said that it has no power?

Especially Zhang Tang, he could think of it with his eyes closed, and there was a huge amount of authority hidden in it.

Think about it, the two official positions responsible for supervision and auditing, the Imperial Shi and the Imperial Shi Zhongcheng in the current Imperial History Yamen, can guess the future of this subordinate province.

After listening to Shang Rong's explanation, Liu Che smiled and applauded, although what Shang Rong said was slightly different from what he conceived, but it was generally clear the difference between the Ministry of Affairs and the Ministry of Menxia.

In short, you can understand the three-province and six-ministry system that Liu Che wants to set up as the separation of powers under the framework of a feudal system with Western Han characteristics.

The Ministry of Affairs is responsible for collation and reporting.

The Ministry of Men is responsible for auditing and supervision.

Of course, there is still a missing link, key legislation and enforcement.

At this stage, Liu Che can establish a perfect division of the three provinces, which is almost the limit.

If you want to get out the six parts, one is that the conditions are not mature, and the other is that even if the entire Tai Womb is in its heyday, there are at most one or two thousand people, of which the non-commissioned officers and errands and eunuchs and maids will account for eighty percent.

The remaining officials are only two or three hundred, and it is of little significance to come up with a six-part system, and it will give people an excuse to criticize.

Therefore, Liu Che decided not to set up six departments for the time being, but first explored the operation of the three provinces, accumulated experience, and cultivated talents.

Therefore, this is the most critical version of the Western Han Dynasty version of Zhongshu Province, Liu Che plans to take the lead in doing it himself, wait for the track, mature, and then entrust it to the courtiers.

Of course, I can't say that I don't think you have enough experience to go wrong. Brother is going to check this kind of thing. Otherwise, where will the ministers' face go!

This book province still needs a table to support.

Who is the best fit?

Liu Che looked at Ju Meng and said, "Ju Qing." In the future, all the documents and notices reviewed by the province will be handed over to the secretary for execution! ”

The drama Meng came out of the column and said: "At home, the minister is a vulgar person, and he doesn't read much, this kind of thing is ......"

Liu Che waved his hand and said with a smile: "Lone will let Wei Xin, Zhou Yuan, and Master Father come to help Qing, besides, Qing should study more!" Lone thinks. Three days, be impressed! I would like to encourage you with this word! ”

"Since the family trusts the minister, the minister will not disappoint the family!" Ji Meng said and kowtowed.

For him. I was really feeling the pressure getting bigger.

As Liu De became Liu Che and then became the prince and moved into the palace, the changes up and down were too great.

He was just a ranger, and anyone in this hall had read several times as many books as he did.

In fact, he has a great sense of inferiority in his heart.

Especially. When I saw Ji Di and Yan Yi.

One of these two people is a generational eunuch. He has been an official for more than ten generations in a row.

The other is simply Yan Hui's descendants, and the servants can be traced back to the time of Huizi, who is a scholarly family and cultivates and reads heirlooms.

Therefore, in the past few days, Drama Meng has asked someone to give him a cultural lesson.

But the more he reads, the more he discovers his humility and insignificance.

Whether he can do this task ordered by the prince well, he really has no idea.

However, he was born as a ranger, and he has a strong temper.

Once committed to something. Then death must be done!

"Don't be impressed for three days! The family regards me as a national soldier, and I should repay it as a national soldier! Ju Meng swore in his heart.

Really. At this time, the word Shi carries a lot of weight in people's hearts, especially in the eyes of people with little culture like Ju Meng, which is quite heavy!

Liu Che didn't know what Ju Meng was thinking at this time, and for Liu Che, he appointed Ju Meng to go to the head of Zhongshu Province, mainly to try to control it.

He took two steps, pointed to the wooden sign and said, "In the future, Qing will be the person in charge of this Zhongshu Province!" ”

Liu Che looked at all the courtiers and arched his hand: "From now on, I hope that the Qings, under the guidance of the Ministry of Affairs, the Menxia Province and the Zhongshu Province, will be loyal to His Majesty, and the lower Zuo Gu will be insensitive, and work together!" ”

"No!" The ministers bowed down one after another.

At this time, many people began to have the idea of climbing the thighs of that giant.

Mix in officialdom and don't form gangs, how can you do it!

After the banquet, Liu Che left behind the heads of the three provinces, including Ji Di, Zhang Tang, Yan Yi, and Ju Meng.

I carefully discussed and subdivided the matters that the three provinces were responsible for and how to deal with them.

At the same time, they are also required to communicate with him as soon as they find any inappropriateness or loopholes or problems in implementation.

After all, the six-part system of these three provinces is the product of the prosperity after the Sui and Tang dynasties, and at this time, after thousands of years, whether it will be unadaptable to the water and soil, whether it will lead to any mistakes and omissions, Liu Che has no bottom.

In addition, the three-province system he is making now is actually a combination of his practice in the Hejian Kingdom in his previous life, the three-province six-ministry system in the later life, the nine-elder system of the Celestial Empire, and the social characteristics at this time, which is obviously different from the real three-province system.

This is also the reason why he didn't dare to reach out to his father to ask for the establishment of these three provinces.

For the time being, whether it is Zhang Tang or Ju Meng, they are still hanging on to their original positions, but they are only under the orders of Liu Che, the prince, to deal with the affairs of the prince.

To put it simply, the current three provinces are three provisional institutions that have no establishment.

If there are inappropriateness and loopholes or big bugs in execution, Liu Che can cancel them with one order!

The most important thing is that anything new requires a process of adaptation and a time for continuous improvement and soundness.

Liu Che didn't want these people to be timid and find out the problem after they went down, so he just wanted to cover the lid and didn't want to take it out and say it, in that case, by the time he found out, it might be too late!

After talking about these things, Liu Che asked Wang Dao to call Gu Zhenrou and a few other talents who he thought had a certain ability after observation.

After everyone came, Liu Che said to everyone: "The Mid-Autumn Festival harvest is in place, and I am ordered by my father to preside over the formulation and implementation of the protective grain price plan for the Mid-Autumn Festival harvest in this pass. Nominally, it will be hung in the name of Shaofu, but in essence, everyone knows it. This is a big policy led and implemented by a single force, and I asked Qing and others to come here, just to discuss with Zhu Qing how to do this! ”

As soon as Liu Che's words came out, the dozen or so people present were all solemn.

In fact, everyone knows that the importance and severity of this matter is serious.

This was the prince's first government affairs and major policy. The success or failure of this matter is directly related to the prestige and authority of the crown prince.

No one dares to be sloppy.

Liu Che looked at Yan Yi, Zhang Tang, and Ju Meng, and asked, "Before going to Hedong alone, I explained to the three Aiqing. Investigate the number of acres of land registered and the number of fake fields in the entire Guanzhong, how is the investigation? ”

When Yan heard this, he bowed and said: "Back to the house, the ministers are from the archives of the Yamen of the Inner History and the Yamen of the Shaofu. Inquire and learn. At present, most of the population in Guanzhong is gathered in the seven counties around Chang'an, of which Yiyang County has 21,000 households with more than 100,000 mouths and a total of 2 million and 12 acres of land, and Changling County has more than 17,000 households and 84,300 mouths. There are 1.5 million acres of land......"

Liu Che listened while taking notes on these numbers.

For the current Han family. Basically, there is no possibility of hidden fields and hidden households, especially in Guanzhong, the reason why Guanzhong hukou is so popular is because, if you are from Guanzhong, even if your family road is in the middle, you can guarantee that you will not go hungry, there is land to cultivate, and the landlord class can not exploit too much in Guanzhong, the land rent is too high, and the peasants turned around and went to Shanglin Yuan and other royal estates to rent official fields.

So, theoretically, it is unlikely that these numbers would be fake.

While listening to the number of Yan Yi's report, Liu Che calculated.

He suddenly laughed, according to the number reported by Yan Yi, and according to the information he had now, the average population density in the seven counties near Chang'an had reached more than 400 people per square kilometer.

That's an amazing number!

In particular, the seven counties around Chang'an, together with the population of Chang'an itself, almost form a super population gathering area with a total population of more than one million around Chang'an.

With a population of one million, it may be a third-tier small city for future generations.

But at this time, there is no second place on the planet that is so densely populated.

Liu Che rubbed his temples.

The whole problem is very serious!

Because, through the number of jù, Liu Che found that the population around Chang'an is currently close to saturation.

In the entire Wei River, the land that can be reclaimed has basically been reclaimed, and if the land is forcibly reclaimed, it will lead to soil erosion, and then ......

Thinking of Shaanxi and the Yellow River in later generations, Liu Che felt that it was really terrible!

The consequences of Guze and the fish are what Liu Che has seen with his own eyes.

However, the people need enough arable land to support themselves, their families and future generations, and not only will they not accept it if they are stopped from cultivating it for so-called environmental reasons, but Liu Che will also feel that the person who proposed this construction is a bad pen.

Man is the spirit of all things, standing at the top of the food chain.

Protecting the environment is to protect human beings, but if human beings suffer themselves in order to protect the environment, isn't it idiocy?

"If only we could divert some of the peasants to other places!" Liu Che thought in his heart, so he asked: "Originally, how about the population and number of households in Heshang County, the former Qin capital and other places?" ”

Zhang Tang replied: "Back to the house, the minister has also checked, according to the records of the internal history of the Yamen and the archives of the Duwei Yamen, so far in Heshang County, there are more than 110,000 households, more than 600,000 mouths, and more than 8 million acres of land, so Qindu Xianyang and Huayin and other counties have a total of more than 90,000 households, 510,000 mouths, and more than 7 million acres of fields!" ”

When Liu Che heard this, he nodded, this is right!

The population of Guanzhong is too concentrated near Chang'an.

The population density in the vicinity of Chang'an is actually more than 400 people per square kilometer, while in other places around it, there are only more than 20 people and more than 30 people per square kilometer.

That's a big gap!

Even if we exclude the nearly 200,000 or 300,000 urban residents who live in Chang'an, there are more than 300 people per square kilometer.

If it goes on like this, it's no wonder that the soil and water are not lost!

It seems that in the future, we will have to find a way to divert part of the population to other parts of Guanzhong.

But how to divert traffic is a big problem.

Because, the population around Chang'an is so large and constantly expanding, in fact, it is caused by the Han family itself.

Up to now, Liu Bang, Xiaohui, the first emperor and the emperor's father, the total migration population is close to three or four hundred thousand.

These immigrants are going to have children......

plus Chehou, who is not leaving Chang'an, and their children, family relatives and friends......

This leads to the extreme population expansion around Chang'an, while there are still large tracts of land in the east and west of Guanzhong that are not fully utilized.

It is no wonder that Xiaozhu later set up Zuo Feng Yi and Right Fufeng to support agriculture in the east and west.

But this method is a symptom rather than a root cause, what should I do when the left Feng Yi and the right Fufeng are also full of people?

History tells Liu Che that in less than ten years, the land in Guanzhong will not be able to support the population of Guanzhong, and even if grain is transferred from Kanto every year, it will still be useless.

In his previous life, Guanzhong was already short of nearly two or three million stones.

It is conceivable that within a few years of his accession to the throne, the whole problem would erupt.

As the crown prince and ruler, Liu Che felt that he had to take a long-term view and see the world a hundred years later.

Liu Che thought about it for a long time and felt that he wanted to solve this problem.

For the time being, it is really only possible to develop the land of Zuo Feng Yi and Right Fufeng through guò to alleviate the pressure caused by the population explosion.

Then, it can only be alleviated by expanding the land in Guanzhong.

And then ......

Liu Che looked to the west......

"If you don't colonize, you die!" His fists clenched.

He deeply knew that if he could not get the land and resources of India to support the people and Li Shu of this country, then, no matter how he reformed, unless hybrid rice and chemical fertilizers were developed, the probability of a three-hundred-year dynastic cycle would be the fate that the country and nation he loved so much could not get rid of.

For ancient China, no one in this world could defeat it except itself!

The irony is that the ancient Chinese Han dynasty was basically defeated by itself, and the one who really died at the hands of foreign enemies was a Song Dynasty! (To be continued......)