Turbulent Times Chapter 872: Whose cake moved
"Your Majesty wants to restore the Qin system?"
In the yamen of the Blue Yiwei Mansion, Wang Junlin said with a look of astonishment: "What kind of Qin system does your Majesty want to revive? The disturbance is almost full of civil and military opposition, and all powerful families are against it. What a big cake this is. Don't these people Do you know that His Majesty will kill someone if he disagrees recently?"
"My lord, why haven't my subordinates heard of what kind of cake is?" Xu Jingzong looked puzzled.
"What the cake is is not the point... don't interrupt." Wang Junlin said with a glare.
Xu Jingzong immediately forgot about the cake completely, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the restoration of the Qin system this time is not simply a matter of imitating the Qin system..."
Wang Junlin gradually recalled it, and suddenly remembered another thing Yang Guang did in history that was praised by later generations, and asked: "Does Your Majesty want to abolish the state system?"
Xu Jingzong said with a look of admiration: "My lord is wise, Your Majesty wants to revoke all the state capitals and implement a two-level system of prefectures and counties, restoring the divisional structure of the Qin Dynasty in form."
Wang Junlin thought that this was indeed the case, but he still couldn't help being surprised. This is a big reform from top to bottom! Not to mention anything else, it directly reduced the number of official positions in the country by one-third, and it was mainly officials at the state level who were "laid off". Now, the administrative officials who control the state capital in the Sui Dynasty are basically from powerful families and nobles. No wonder it attracted such a big backlash. Your Majesty is trying to get rid of the shackles of a powerful family, and he has directly pulled out his salary from the bottom of the pot!
"I let you **** powerful families control the state capital, and I directly revoked the state government and let you eat shit..." Wang Junlin stood in Yang Guang's perspective, and suddenly these things appeared in his mind Thoughts, I thought that Yang Guang was playing mahjong as the banker, and he couldn't be fooled by the cooperation of the other three, so he just turned the table over!
"Your Majesty, this is...cough, Your Majesty is really courageous..." Wang Junlin sincerely admired it.
Xu Jingzong sighed: "Since your Majesty ascended the throne, you have tried to cultivate cronies and confidantes, and tried to find ways to install them in the three provinces and six departments of the imperial court and local prefectures and counties. , and the effects of the three provinces and six ministries are there, but most of the important positions are still held by powerful families. Now it seems that His Majesty has lost his patience..."
When Xu Jingzong said these words, his expression was quite complicated, and there was a faint pleasure in the depths of his eyes. Although Xu Jingzong's palace was very deep, Wang Junlin still understood the unfinished meaning in his words.
Xu Jingzong's family was originally a down-and-out aristocrat, a loser in the struggle between nobles. If Yang Guang can't break the status quo that the aristocratic family controls the state capital, it will be difficult for people other than the aristocratic family to become high-ranking officials. Xu Jingzong Although he belongs to the class of high-ranking officials now, he is not within the scope of the three provinces, six ministries and prefectures and counties after all. For him who is a scholar, he still has regrets to some extent. There is no small hatred.
Looking at it now, Yang Guang touched a big piece of cake from a powerful family, no wonder he suffered such a big backlash.
"Your Majesty is wise and powerful, the system of prefectures, counties and counties should have been changed to two levels."
"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only thirteen prefectures in the world, which were divided into more than one hundred counties. After the separation of the Three Kingdoms, the southern prefectures of Jing, Yang, Yi, and Jiao developed greatly, and increased to nineteen prefectures when the Western Jin Dynasty was unified. However, in the following two hundred years, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties split the world, and the ruling regimes of various dynasties in various places increased a lot, and the overseas Chinese set up prefectures and counties. Counties and 1124 counties, a county generally only governs one to three counties, and the significance of three-level administrative divisions is no longer significant. In many counties, the prefects actually don’t govern, but this additional administrative mechanism still creates a huge local bureaucracy system, which increases the number of courts and officials. The burden of the people..."
Xu Jingzong explained with reason and evidence, his expression was a bit complicated, but what he said was extremely reasonable.
"Jingzong's words are reasonable." Wang Junlin agreed deeply, nodded and said.
Xu Jingzong hastily said: "It's just that all the powerful and aristocratic families have ulterior motives, not only the three provinces, six ministries and nine ministers objected, but also incited so many officials to object, my lord, should our Lanyiwei Mansion take the initiative to do something to help His Majesty? "
After speaking, Xu Jingzong suddenly felt a little guilty. After all, it was a rare time for him to offer advice and suggestions this time without thinking from Wang Junlin's perspective. Said to be extremely rare.
"That's right, we want to help His Majesty do something, but the interests involved in this matter are too great, we can't act rashly, we'll wait until we see the situation." Wang Junlin took a deep look at Xu Jingzong, he knew that he would be released as an official in half a year at the latest, and what he wanted to do had to be away from the center of the imperial court, the farther away from Yang Guang the better, so unless he had to, he didn't want to make trouble at this time.
"My lord is right. The interests involved are far greater than when I decided to move the capital. It's just that His Majesty has made up his mind, and the powerful family may not back down. This matter..."
Xu Jingzong shook his head and sighed. He didn't say what he said next, but his implication was that His Majesty would ask Wang Junlin to help sooner or later. Helped out.
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All the state capitals were withdrawn, and the decision to implement the two-level system of counties and counties was not approved at the court meeting, but Yang Guang suddenly ordered the cabinet to directly start preparing the plan.
One stone caused a thousand waves, and the three provinces, six ministries and nine government officials stood up and strongly opposed it. They knelt in front of Chengtian Gate several times and asked to see Tianyan, but Yang Guang avoided it.
As he gradually grasped the power in his own hands, and the court and the local government also planted many of his confidantes, Yang Guang became more and more tough in his actions.
However, Yang Guang moved too much cake this time, and the various powerful families no longer tolerated it.
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The court hall was noisy and chaotic, while Wang Junlin, wearing a simple long gown, followed Shen Guang to Dongshi.
In an unremarkable restaurant in Dongshi, Wang Junlin was sitting in a very inconspicuous small box, watching the shopkeeper and the waiters rush back and forth to greet the guests, while he and Shen Guang drank golden soufflé slowly.
After waiting for half an hour, two figures walked in outside the door. Shen Guang smiled, pointed to the middle-aged man with a fair and handsome face walking in front, and said with a soft smile: "That is Goguryeo Prime Minister Yuan The personal representative sent by Taizuo is a businessman from Liaodong named Mao Haiming, and the person behind him is his entourage. He is not weak, and he is a master of breaking achievements."
While Shen Guang was whispering in Wang Junlin's ear, Mao Haiming had already walked into the restaurant with an attendant. come to them.