I smashed the emperor's daughter

Chapter 13 The emperor wants me to serve and bathe?

In the end, this routine court meeting, which lasted for half a day, did not pass any resolutions. The only result was the announcement of two things that had already been settled.

The first is that the emperor changed his name to Li Yu; the second is to give the cabinet the right to vote.

The focus of the controversy - the posthumous title of the first emperor, is still unresolved.

Under the pressure of the officials and the Empress Dowager Yi'an, Li Yu still refused to compromise and refused to give the old emperor the posthumous title of "Xian"; without the permission of the new emperor, the matter fell into a stalemate.

Back in the Qianqing Palace, the little emperor locked himself in the huge main hall of the Qianqing Palace, and did not allow anyone to enter and disturb him.

After noon, she opened the door of the hall again, and issued an order to call Li Yuntang in; the latter had just entered and hadn't stood still, so he was asked face to face:
"Li Yuntang, I am also the emperor, not to say that I am as arbitrary as the old emperor, and I shouldn't be like a puppet without only one seal missing; what is the current situation?"

Seeing that the little emperor's face was no longer as gloomy as it was when he came to court, and his mentality changed from blindly avoiding in the court to actively solving problems, Li Yuntang felt a little relieved, and comforted him: "The emperor can dismiss the subject's request with a single word." Memorial, how can you belittle yourself and call yourself a puppet."

"What's the use of refuting their memorial, the matter is still not resolved."

The little emperor's mood did not improve at all, but he became even more depressed because he remembered that the old emperor was still lying on the Meishan God Palace.

The courtiers had a lot of work to do at the court meeting, but Emperor Daxing couldn't afford to wait. If it was left longer, the body would not know what would become of it...

Seeing that the first rhetoric didn't work, Li Yuntang changed his starting point:
"My lord, since the Qin Dynasty, there has been no centralization of power in the past dynasties. In my opinion, the biggest problem is not in decision-making, but in execution!"

"implement?"

The little emperor seemed to have been enlightened, his eyes instantly brightened, and his expectant eyes fell directly on Li Yuntang's face, urging him to speak quickly.

"That's right, what the emperor lacks is not the seal, but an administrative team that makes government orders come and go!

Most of the emperors hold all the power in their own hands, but even if they are as diligent as Qin Shihuang and Ming Taizu, one person's energy is limited after all, and it is impossible to finish all the things.

While allowing the officials below to carry out their orders, it is necessary to give them some power; in this way, the officials inadvertently obtained the power to restrict the emperor. "

Hearing this, the little emperor fell into deep thought and remained silent for a while, still unable to understand.

Li Yuntang looked at the little emperor with a puzzled expression and ignorant eyes, feeling very cute, he stretched out his hand out of nowhere, and touched her fair cheek.

Being touched by this, the little emperor's face shuddered, and he scolded: "You are presumptuous, you play tricks on me."

"The reason why the former emperor was capable and arbitrary was that he had an administrative team that obeyed his orders," Li Yuntang, who had taken advantage of it, did not dare to be obedient, but instead spoke out to bring the topic back on track.

The little emperor was not angry at all, but a little secretly happy, but Li Yuntang changed his face at the speed of light again, and angrily choked out "too much" in her chest, and then continued to listen obediently.

"With this set of administrative team, the first emperor can bypass court councils, bypass hundreds of officials, and do whatever he wants!"

Speaking of this, Li Yuntang felt a surge of admiration for Emperor Qiansheng, because he did something that even Yongzheng failed to do——

The officials and the gentry pay the food together!
In the history of Li Yuntang's previous life, it was a false proposition that officials and gentry should pay food and food together. It was only implemented in a short period of time and on a small scale during the Yongzheng period when Tian Wenjing was the governor of Henan, and then it was cancelled.

Secondly, even in Henan, the government and gentry pay grain together, which is not good governance. The extra money collected not only increased the burden on the working people, but also did not become the financial revenue of the imperial court, but was reabsorbed by officials and subordinate staff at all levels. went back.

It can be said that it is taken from the official and used for the official.

Just like this, it can still be blown up in the sky and on the earth, no one knows, no one knows, how many years he has continued to live for the "Great Qing" and so on.

As a comparison, the Emperor Qiansheng actually received money from the officials and gentry, and his annual income increased to more than one million taels; just for this, it is not known how much higher than Yinzhen.

But as the saying goes, cutting off a person's wealth is like killing one's parents, checking other people's fields, and engaging officials and gentry to pay for food together. It is no wonder that this group of civil servants and Wu Xun hate the old emperor for entering the ancient times, and pour pots of dirty water on them. .

When Li Yuntang compared the two in his mind, the little emperor was not idle, he went through it carefully and gave his own opinion:

"You mean, I should learn from the emperors of the previous Ming Dynasty and use eunuchs to fight civil servants. I can achieve my goal without going through their hands?"

That's what I mean, the ready-made man is standing in front of you, Your Majesty!

Li Yuntang roared in his heart, but what he said was irrelevant:
"It's really too late to think about cultivating internal ministers to check and balance the external court.
In fact, the first emperor considered this point and left a team for the emperor, that is, those few ministers who took orders;
And those two seals are precisely not to restrict the emperor, but to prevent Minister Gu Ming from doing his best."

Arriving here, the little emperor hadn't fully understood what Li Yuntang meant, but suddenly understood her father's good intentions.

People's hearts are unpredictable, and if she fully delegates power to her ministers, she herself is still young; in this case, if she fails to keep things in order, she will give birth to a powerful minister.

Therefore, while the old emperor left his administrative team to assist the new emperor, he also distributed two seals to himself and the queen mother Yi'an, in order to let the queen mother help the emperor to check and balance foreign ministers.

But my father probably never imagined that the person in Chengqian Palace who looks virtuous and virtuous, and who is well-behaved in the world, hides so deeply in secret, is actually a person who firmly opposes the New Deal; He ordered the minister to make a round.

The original political forces in the court were swept away, and the conservative civil servants who had been suppressed quickly raised their heads, and with the tacit approval of the Queen Mother, they seized various important positions, and in essence occupied all the power to execute government orders.

But they couldn't reasonably deprive themselves, the emperor, of the decision-making power, which formed the current deformed court structure-those who can do things are disobedient, and those who have the right to make decisions are unable to move an inch due to the lack of cooperation from below.

After sorting out the conflicts of interest in the court, the little emperor gradually guessed what Li Yuntang was thinking—it was too late to say it, but in his heart he felt that it was not good to ask for power, so he wanted to offer the reward himself.

The little emperor pouted immediately, Li Yuntang had already known such a big secret about him, yet he was still so secretive!

Reminiscent of Li Yuntang's "frivolous" behavior just now, the little emperor suddenly felt teased, and then opened his mouth and shouted:
"Li Yuntang, now I have a very important matter, no one can do it except you—"

Li Yuntang was overjoyed, thinking that the emperor was going to give him an official position, but his smile froze when he said the next words, instead his nostrils felt a little hot.

"Since the wet nurse passed away, no one has served me and Mu Yu, and now I want you to serve Mu..."

The more I said it, the smaller the voice became, until it was inaudible in the end.

Li Yuntang opened his eyes in surprise, only to see that the little emperor's face was red up to the ears.

　The past two days have been too busy, and the double update will resume tomorrow. Good night everyone!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)