Baojun did not dare to waste time and hurriedly explained the news from the Tai Hospital clearly in a few sentences: "Your Majesty, the situation is urgent now. Please notify the Queen Mother of the two palaces immediately to discuss countermeasures urgently!"
Zai Chun was stunned, "Just this little information? You asked me to discuss countermeasures. How do you want me to discuss this little information?"
"You don't know how many enemies there are! The specific identities are just guessed, they are said to be Chinese troops!"
"Your Majesty...the enemy publicly revealed their identity on the battlefield. They said so themselves!" Baojun hurriedly defended.
"Bullshit! Is this your first day as an official, Baojun? Do you believe whatever the enemy says on the battlefield? Have you captured any prisoners? Are there any dead bodies? Is there any physical evidence?"
"Couldn't someone else be the one to blame? You're stupid and stupid! I didn't understand clearly what you asked me to discuss? What do you, the Minister of Military and Aircraft, do for a living?"
Bao Jun couldn't raise his head after being scolded and just said in a low voice, "The Chinese Xinglin leader in Tai Hospital is Dr. Huang Xie. We used to think that he was just an ordinary doctor, but now it seems that it's not that simple!"
"This evil doctor Huang must be very important to Xiao Letian, that's why he acted in such a risky way! Are other forces putting the blame on him? I don't think so, because how could other forces understand that a doctor is so important?"
"So the only possibility is that they are from the Xiao Letian sect...and I am sure that this evil doctor Huang must have a very important mission. He must have mastered a lot of Chinese secrets!"
"Nonsense!" Zai Chun glared, "I don't know? Why do I need you to remind me? That doctor Huang received the master's independent scientific research fund. Who knows how many secrets are in the belly of the head of state?"
"God knows what kind of world-changing technology they are researching. I have long said that this evil doctor Huang can't be deducted, can't be deducted... but no one listened!"
Baojun gritted his teeth and said cruelly, "That's not all! Your Majesty...I think this incident is also a...demonstration!"
"Demonstration?" Zai Chun looked at him and asked.
"That's right, it's a demonstration... Although I don't speak much, it doesn't mean that I am blind. Recently, the government and the public have been turbulent, and even the foreign forces have become chaotic!"
"All the foreign forces are counterattacking against Prince Gong. What does Xiao Letian want to do at this time? Is it a final stab or a threat?"
"Your Majesty! I think your Majesty should not get involved in this matter..."
Zai Chun seemed to have gotten to know this old man again. Could everything Bao Jun said today be a sign of surrender to him? Isn't he a member of the conservative forces?
After thinking for a moment, Zai Chun said calmly, "The secret passage has not been opened for so many years. Tonight you exercised your authority as Minister of Military and Aircraft to open the secret passage... When word of this comes out, you will be at the forefront of the storm!"
"You want to know what this secret passage represents? This is a symbol of the emperor's right to control the imperial military aircraft!"
"Are you Baojun so brave? Do you dare to open this secret passage?"
Baojun touched the gold brick on his forehead, holding the key in both hands and raising it above his head, "Is there anything you dare not do, old minister! It's just a handful of withered bones, and the ashes will only fatten the ground!"
"If your Majesty thinks that the old minister has overstepped his bounds, then take back this key!"
What exactly is the secret passage? Zai Chun couldn't understand such a profound truth, but his master Xiao Letian briefly mentioned it to him!
Since ancient times, imperial power is not supreme, it is also subject to restrictions!
First of all, there is competition between the imperial power and the power of the prime minister. Excessive power of the prime minister will also threaten the safety of the emperor!
After thousands of years of competition, the imperial power shattered the power of the prime minister and replaced it with a cabinet system. The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the Military Department of the Manchu Qing Dynasty actually divided the power of one prime minister among several smaller ones. The prime ministers govern the country together!
The power is dispersed among several small prime ministers, which is also conducive to the emperor's control!
But in any case, this is also a kind of decentralization, and Emperor Yongzheng carried out bold reforms in this pattern! The secret passage also has a system of secret lectures, which turned the minister of military aircraft from a junior prime minister to an ordinary minister, and his power dropped by another level!
The emperor has unprecedented centralization of power, and the existence of secret passages allows information to not be isolated. He can control the empire 24 hours a day. He does not allow you, the military minister, to act arbitrarily on big and small matters!
The military ministers after Yongzheng did not have half the authority of junior prime ministers. They were nothing more than puppets of the imperial power!
The secret system also allowed local officials to widely install their own eyes and ears. Who would dare to deceive the emperor if all the officials in the frontiers were not awe-inspiring?
The Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties can be said to be the pinnacle of monarchical centralization in Chinese feudal society!
And then it declined all the way. The emperor became more and more incompetent, the overseas enemies became more and more powerful, and the internal peasant uprisings happened one after another!
The emperor can no longer control power alone. He can only maintain the unification of the empire by decentralizing power!
By Zaichun's time, the imperial power had been diluted too much. One prime minister's office could control almost six ministries, and Prince Gong had simply become the master of the outer dynasty!
Although the empress dowagers of the two palaces can restrict it, it is impossible for a woman to do everything by herself. It is still a few big officials outside who do the actual work!
Prince Gong, Prince Chun, Bao Jun, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzao, Weng Tonghe... and other important Manchu and Han ministers basically performed their own duties and had very high autonomy in power!
Do these people really hope to return to the centralized power structure of the past Yongzheng and Qianlong periods? This is a heartbreaking question!
I'm afraid that what you say sounds nice, but that's not what you think in your heart!
During the most severe period of Yongzheng, officials were monitored while playing mahjong at night, and someone could steal a card from an official's house without even knowing it!
Who among the officials was not afraid at that time? It can be said that the emperor asked you to die at the third watch, but who dares to keep you until the fifth watch?
At that time, who would dare to imagine that a prince like Prince Gong would force the palace to go against the emperor? I'm afraid that as soon as I had the idea, there was a will to commit suicide!
Although that era was said to be prosperous, the lives of officials were not as comfortable as they are now! With the power dispersed, the emperor had to be careful if he wanted to kill his ministers, and basically did not dare to do it at will!
Today Baojun actually opened a secret passage on his own initiative! What does it mean? Does he want to restore the system of the Yongzheng period? Let the emperor monitor the empire 24 hours a day?
This is a sign! This, this, this... When word spreads about this, all officials will feel no less than a super earthquake or tsunami!
But no matter what, Baojun got things done, so much that even Emperor Tongzhi had to pay attention to him!
Zai Chun looked at Bao Jun and said nothing for several minutes. "Since the key is in your hand, you can take care of it for me for a while!"
"Please tell me in detail what your plans are for tonight!"
