Looking at their expressions, Li Ke's originally unhappy mood suddenly became better.
"Why do you look at me like this? Do you think it's incredible?" Li Ke said lightly.
The four people were a little speechless. Isn't it incredible that you didn't know it? This thing is just a few of us. We have been in contact with you for a long time. If you say this to the outside world, I am afraid that the people in the world will tear us apart alive.
The common people don't understand so many principles, nor do they understand long-term planning. In their opinion, whoever can bring them a happy and beautiful life should be the emperor.
Who should be in charge of the world, and there is only one person who can sit in this position now, and that is you.
"Your Majesty, I feel that there are some problems with your idea." Wei Zheng tried his best to organize his words and said, after all, he did not want to irritate Your Majesty at this moment.
"Dong Guo Zheng." Li Ke sighed, "You have changed."
Wei Zheng: "?"
"You don't have to look at me with a question mark on your face. You are no longer the Wei Zheng who asked for life for the people and dared to hit a pillar to death." Li Ke sighed.
Wei Zheng: "..."
"Although you, Wei Xuancheng, cannot say that you have a family background, your ancestors were all officials. I can't say that the books you have read are among the top ones in the Tang Dynasty, but at least they are among the top ones."
"I don't believe you that Wei Zheng doesn't understand the disadvantages of royal inheritance. Looking at the past dynasties, whether it is a short-lived dynasty or the Han Dynasty that laid the foundation of the Han people, in short, all kinds of mediocre emperors emerged one after another."
"Even if the primogeniture system is not adopted, even if the virtuous are established instead of the elders, there are always various problems in the long dynasty's career."
"For example, the emperor died too early, and the prince was young, so he needed an auxiliary minister, but the auxiliary minister had too much power and was mixed with personal interests."
"Also, the emperor's prince does not have much success. After all, he is a prince. He cannot endure hardship and cannot understand many things. What ordinary people can understand through hardship in their teens, a prince may not be able to understand until he is thirty."
"The four of you are all ministers of the Tang Dynasty. You don't know that there are some experiences that teachers cannot teach, right?"
"So, you know the disadvantages of dynasty and royal inheritance better than I do."
"In that case, why do you, Wei Zheng, still object?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"Your Majesty, how about you explain it more carefully? Let's discuss it with a few of us? After all, a system that appears suddenly will not be implemented without careful consideration and improvement. You don't want the world to be in chaos, right?" Fang Xuanling After a pause, he spoke.
"Okay, let me tell you. It's very simple. The emperor only retains military power and no longer participates in any government management. Then a top manager is established under the emperor, called the Prime Minister, or the Prime Minister, or the Prime Minister. Even the president."
"Then, whether it is the appointment of officials or the appointment of ministers such as the Prime Minister, the term will be once every five years."
"Then the prime minister cannot serve for a maximum of two consecutive terms. After two terms, he needs to be re-elected. The so-called election is to be voted on by all officials at the National Officials Conference of Zhongshu Province."
"After each prime minister takes office, he proposes cabinet candidates to the emperor. The cabinet is the selection of officials from various departments, and then the emperor approves."
"Of course, this is basically just a formality. The royal family only serves as a supervisor. How the country operates and how the court governs, the royal family no longer interferes."
"If the prime minister cannot manage the country well, he can resign."
"The prime minister is responsible for all daily decisions in the country, and the emperor no longer has any involvement."
"In addition, the Zhongshu Province is responsible for the legislative body, while the Menxia Province is responsible for supervising the trial and judicial institutions. The Shangshu Province is the entire government, and the government functions are all responsible for it."
"As for the military, it is no longer involved in daily government affairs."
"Well, that's about it. If you want the details, I can discuss it with you and improve it." Li Ke said all his thoughts.
The four of them were stunned.
They were shocked not because of Li Ke's outrageous idea, but because of the completeness of Li Ke's idea.
This... this set of strategies, if you think about it carefully, many things in it are too subtle. This can be said to be a complete set of political systems, just like the benefits of the establishment of the three provinces and six ministries system back then.
Although it can be seen that this set is modified based on the three-province and six-department system, it is only more specific and complete in some details and other aspects.
But the wonderful thing here is that the royal family is directly picked out.
Just like the example Your Majesty gave before, if you are young when you inherit the throne and need an auxiliary minister, what should you do if the auxiliary minister has too much power?
Now His Majesty has given the answer. I will simply become the Prime Minister on a permanent basis for this Auxiliary Minister. All of you will fight for this Auxiliary Minister. No matter how you fight, my royal family will stay out of the matter.
Because under this system, the prime minister has too much power. He is really equivalent to the emperor in the past, except that he has no military power.
But as for military power, they quickly figured out the beauty of not having military power. Because there is no military power, it means that no matter whether you want your political opponents to rise or fall, you can only follow the rules of the Tang Dynasty. Play inside.
To put it bluntly, everyone is playing within the same framework.
As long as you argue, the opinion of the royal family is very important. Even if the royal family doesn't care, the royal family's words will have an impact among the people.
Because to put it bluntly, even if the country eventually dies, the people will not think it is the royal family's problem. I will only think that you, the Prime Minister, are rubbish and cannot govern.
It doesn't matter even if the emperor is mediocre. Anyway, he doesn't deal with political affairs, and he doesn't even need to care about them.
But the status is there.
Reasonable, too reasonable.
The only problem is that the emperor has to give up too many rights, but the few rights he retains in the end allow the royal family to roughly control the entire country.
However, the royal family must maintain the basic base of the army.
But overall, this is much safer and more stable than the succession methods of the previous dynasties.
The four of them are all well-informed people. After Li Ke's words, they probably thought of the reasonableness and power of this system!
But there is also a big problem, that is, they seriously suspect that His Majesty came up with such a system because he did not want to work, but they have no evidence.
The question... is so outrageous.
How much do you really don’t want to be the emperor, and why can you think of a solution so quickly?
"Your Majesty, this sounds very reasonable, but I still have to consider it, and such a major reform cannot be completed in a short time." Fang Xuanling hurriedly spoke first.
He doesn't want to walk out onto the street one day and be greeted by a scoop of dung. This system...if you don't explain it well, people may think whatever they want.
