After Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao left Tianjin, they still failed to invite Li Yanzhi to Beijing. Gao Gong was very unhappy. Fortunately, he was in charge of the cabinet. There was no trouble outside and no wealth inside, so there would be no trouble.

It was almost January of the ninth year of Longqing, and the north wind was like a knife, and snow was accumulated along the way. According to convention, after the powerful ministers retired, they would leave the capital as soon as possible - this was to avoid the emperor's suspicion. However, now the emperor has become a decoration, and Xu Jie has been in charge of the world for ten years. If he stayed in the capital for a while in the name of winter, no one would dare to care about him.

But Xu Jie asked his family to clean up on the day of his retirement. After everything was ready, he immediately went south. Xu Fan had already built an eight-wheeled cart for his father. The cart was two meters long and one or two meters wide. It was like a moving house, and slowly traveling south along the official road.

Li Yanzhi heard that a team of cavalry had been dispatched to escort him, and Jiang Yifan heard the news and greeted the prefectures and counties along the way. When the officials of the prefectures and counties along the way heard the news, they knew that Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi were still in love, and did not dare to look at each other because they lost their power.

After passing Tongzhou, Xu Fan asked if he wanted to go to Tianjin to meet Li Yanzhi. Xu Jie said, "I walked so fast that I just avoided him. Why did I say to see him? Besides, the teacher went to see the students, and there was no such thing in the world."

Li Yanzhi didn't come either, but just asked Jiang Yifan to greet him on his behalf, and Xu Jie also left his illness and disappeared.

Gao Gong said to Zhang Juzheng: "Xu Huating is just afraid of trouble! He is afraid that Zhenhai Gong already has the intention of being reckless. He neither wants to go against Zhenhai Gong, nor is he worried that Zhenhai Gong's plan will not last long and does not want to bear the infamous in history, so he pushed everything clean!"

Zhang Juzheng just smiled. Gao Gong thought that he was Xu Jie's student and kept silent about his mentor's faults. It was also a kind of verbal ethics, so he stopped talking about Xu Jie's bad words.

On that day, Li Yanzhi sent Jiang Yifan to come and attached a letter saying that he was sick in Tianjin and was unable to move. He wanted to ask Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng to discuss the major events in the world together.

Gao Gong was already the chief minister at this time, suppressing the emperor in the capital and commanding all officials. His authority was as high as one day. Seeing Li Yanzhi's triumphant success but did not return to Beijing immediately, he was already dissatisfied. At this time, he listened to Li Yanzhi's suggestion that he wanted him to go to Tianjin, and was very upset and thought to himself: "I, Gao Gong, is your private minister? If the chief minister and the Grand Secretary go to Tianjin to discuss matters, what kind of concise!" But he was still not good at stinging the temper of Li Yanzhi after all, but said to Jiang Yifan: "Since ancient times, there has never been a courtesy of the general of the prime minister! I am in the center and cannot leave for a moment."

Jiang Yifan said: "The journey between Beijing and Tianjin is not far. If there are any daily things, please ask Mr. Li (Li Chunfang) to exercise authority in the cabinet. Now there are four Grand Secretary in the cabinet. If three gather together, the center will be wherever they are."

How could Gao Gong leave? Now he and Li Yanzhi are playing games. Whoever sets off will suffer. The initiative will immediately shorten, and there is no need to argue anymore! He only said to Jiang Yifan: "I live in Santai and are the leader of all officials. How can I leave the capital? However, after returning to the country, I have not returned to the capital to return the tiger talisman. Now the matter has already begun. I will make a name for Zhenhai Gong forever. Jiang Tongzhi, you should advise me more."

Jiang Yifan couldn't, so he had to return to Tianjin to repay. Li Yan snorted, "I invite Suqing to come, but he still wants to make a big deal with him, but he doesn't accept my kindness! He said that the leader of all officials did not dare to leave without his own - if it wasn't for the major affairs of the national sports, would I invite him?"

Feng Qi said: "Master Gao may not be unaware, but he probably already has another plan in his mind, so he keeps a distance from us."

Butler Zhang said, "Son-in-law, why don't you change to a prime minister! This surname is Gao, who is disobedient."

This sentence is so crazy! Li Yan gave him a straight look and said, "This is a national event, you should avoid it first." Butler Zhang was very frightened and hurriedly stepped down. Li Yanzhi murmured, "Change a prime minister! Although it is not impossible to do it, it is not that easy!"

Gao Gong is not a puppet chief minister. He has a very strong political strength and reputation. Li Yanzhi may not be able to beat him if he plays within the rules. If he wants to ignore the existing political rules, it will be a barbarian - but that will inevitably attract opposition from all over the world, the cost is too high, and it is not necessarily a victory.

At this time, Chen Yuting had already been ordered to go north. Li Yanzhi waited for him for two days. On the third day, Chen Yuting arrived in Tianjin and asked him about his ideas. Chen Yuting said, "Actually, the current political system is quite good, and Gao Ge Lao's actions are nothing wrong. It's better to let go to Beijing. If there is any change, it's better to live in harmony with Gao Ge Lao, and things will go smoother."

Li Yan, who didn't say this, was straightforward. At this time, everyone around him was his confidant, so he blamed Chen Yuting, "Peasy! Your words are pedantic! As for institutional reform, if I give in today, I will not think about the inherent etiquette system in the future, let alone reform! In terms of the interests and structure, hum! Even if the political situation in the world is balanced, ten or twenty years later, our power will be reduced day by day. When our son's generation is in the generation, we can't turn the situation around again!"

Jiang Yifan said: "What should Sanshe do? As Mr. Zhang said, change to a prime minister?"

"Switch? How to change?" Li Yan said straight: "Gao Gong saw that I didn't want the world to fall into chaos and entered the battle between the five generations of martial artists, so he came to bargain with me. But if we don't move the military barbarians, how can this assistant be exchanged for him?"

At present, the throne of the Ming Dynasty is missing, and no one above the chief minister can restrain him. Although censors can impeach, according to convention, the emperor punishes the impeachment of censors. Now the emperor has no real power. After receiving all the memorials, they are transferred to the cabinet, that is, they are put into Gao Gong and asked him to deal with Gao Gong. How can he defeat him?

Therefore, Gao Gong only has two ways to abdicate. The first is to ask him to abdicate himself like Xu Jie. This Gao Gong is obviously not going to do this in the near future. The second is that Li Yanzhi launched a mutiny and supported the army into the city - Li Yanzhi was unwilling to do this!

Chen Yuting said: "Since Mongolia invaded the south, although there are no explicit regulations, any major affairs of the state cannot be decided by the prime minister, six ministers, censors, princes and princes, and Hanlin scholars gathered to discuss the court. The court's decision cannot be changed. If we want to replace Gao Gong, we might as well convene the court's discussion and discuss the matter."

Feng Qi said, "The court discussion can be both high and high-ranking us! If we advocate convening court discussions and dealing with major issues, Gao Gong proposes to stop the troops and step down, will we obey or not?"

To obey, that is, the Li faction forces declared a failure in this struggle, and the consequences are extremely serious for the Li faction; not obeying, that is, disobeying orders, but following force, will completely destroy the political order that has been gradually created after Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi jointly upholding power since the Mongolian invasion of the south, and the consequences for the country are unimaginable. Neither of these two endings are what the Li faction wants to see.

Li Yanzhi thought for a while and said, "The court discussion should be held, but before the convening, let's try the attitudes of all parties first."

He then told Jiang Yifan to draft a letter and discuss major events with Gao Gong. The letter was later included in Li Yanzhi's collection of essays, called "Book of Gaoge Laos". In the letter, he first said that he had been expeditioning to Japan, but was not adapted to the local conditions, and became ill after returning to Tianjin. This was an explanation of the reason why he could not return to Beijing immediately. He then said that he was thinking about national affairs while he was recuperating. He had a new understanding of it. He simplified the details and listed it as an entry, and wrote it in the letter to discuss the correctness and error with Gao Gong.

Chen Yuting secretly praised Jiang Yifan's literary talent after reading this, thinking that if the content of this letter spreads in the future and the outside world reacts too fiercely, Li Yanzhi still has room for maneuver.

Li Yan's words were intermittent, and his thinking was everywhere. Jiang Yifan wrote like flowing water, but Feng Qi was secretly shocked when he heard it, saying, "Sanshe, if Gao Gong leaked it, it would be his excuse to attack you!"

Li Yanzhi smiled and said, "I just want the outside world to hear a little bit of wind, see their reactions, and then make a decision!"

This time, Chen Yuting sent a letter. Jiang Yifan and Chen Yuting had different responsibilities in the Li School, and their temperaments were also different. Gao Gong saw that Jiang Yifan came, so he was three-point guard in his heart. Because Jiang Yifan was an excellent envoy and was good at the art of pervasive change, Chen Yuting was a capable official and had the spirit of scholars. He came here, and Li Yan directly expressed to Gao Gong that he had the sincerity and mind of tolerance for the country.

Gao Gong opened the letter and read it carefully. Seeing that this letter did not involve any private affairs, it was discussed throughout the article. The main part of the letter believed that although the Ming Dynasty is booming, there are three major disadvantages that are enough to worry a hundred years later:

"First, the imperial examinations are limited to Confucian classics. There is no atmosphere in which the Master studied the six arts in his life, nor can he accommodate the new learning introduced overseas. The scope is too narrow, and the right and wrong of Zhuxue is used as right and wrong, so that the scholars only know how to memorize by rote, and cannot develop their intelligence, so that the wise among scholars keep silent and the true thoughts in their hearts, and that the crazy and violent among scholars are suppressed. This is not the way to nurture scholars."

He believes that the subjects of the imperial examination should be gradually expanded, and the examination of the Four Books and Five Classics should be regarded as a kind of item, and various schools should not only test philosophies, but also test skills. Even new knowledge such as astronomy, mathematics, and physics in overseas must also be gradually included in the assessment scope.

Considering that a person cannot be proficient in all classic skills at the same time, Li Yanzhi also suggested that people with different abilities can advance to the level of success, and implement the real "Imperial Examination" - that is, to divide the imperial examination talents. He even predicted that in the future, multiple top scholars can appear in the country at the same time, such as the top scholar in Confucian classics, top scholar in martial arts, top scholar in physics, top scholar in mathematics, top scholar in criminal history, top scholar in criminal history, etc.

These new candidates were only recruited after the new Jinshi passed the imperial examination and were assigned to various systems for political inspection. "Especially, the Ministry of Works system needs to be physics, engineering, mathematics, geography, the Ministry of Revenue system needs to be mathematics, business, the Ministry of Justice system needs to be the name of the punishment, and the Ministry of War system needs to be the art of military art and martial arts." In order to exercise their ability to enter the officialdom.

When Gao Gong saw this, his hands were already trembling. He continued to watch. The second thing Li Yanzhi discussed was the "ancestral family law" of the Zhu Ming Dynasty.

The Zhu Ming Dynasty had many out-of-time ancestral family laws, such as the rules to protect the royal family, the rules to the clan mansion, the rules to restrict population mobility, the rules to suppress merchants, etc. Over the past decade, under the impact of enlightened factions, they have withdrawn from the historical stage one after another. However, although the old laws have been no longer implemented in reality and the power of the princes has also withered, as the "ancestors' law", they still exist stubbornly in the "Da Ming Law" and the local customs. Zhu Yuanzhang and the emperors of all dynasties still have legal effect to this day, and although new phenomena and new forces have been produced, there is no clear text to protect it.

Li Yanzhi therefore suggested that all these outdated rules should be convened and the court should be repealed together, and new rules should be established to form clear texts and engraved on the tripod to respond to various new situations.

Gao Gong was sweating profusely when he read this, and thought to himself: "Li Zhe is really going to change the world! He is really going to change the world! If he does this, he will be more troublesome than Wang Mang and Wang Anshi!" Although he also agrees with reform, his reform only needs to be fine-tuned, not to make such a thorough revolution!

However, after reading it, he realized that the most powerful thing was still there!

The "third thing" Li Yanzhi said was to reform the current official system! And what he wanted to change was not the subtle details, but the three most sensitive serious diseases:

The first is to reform the audit system of financial power, that is, introduce new statistical methods and conduct a new round of sorting out national finance and land;

The second is to reform the judicial system, separate local government power from judicial power, and set up another judge outside the county magistrate to take charge of the legal affairs of a county;

Article 3 The reform content involves the selection of members of the central cabinet. Although the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty has been in operation for a hundred years, it is still a "hidden rule" in the officialdom formed by the convention. The cabinet's grand clerk is still just the emperor's secretary in terms of title. Some people can be powerful and rely entirely on power. Since the Mongolian invasion of the south, the cabinet's power has been extremely powerful, but there is no clear written law to ensure its status. Li Yanzhi believes that if the world wants to be stable for a long time, a new written appointment system for the cabinet's chief minister must be formed, a deadline and supervision system, and it is also recommended that how to supervise the grand clerk be put on the agenda.

After reading this letter, Gao Gong's sweat was permeated. In fact, the changes proposed by Li Yanzhi have accumulated considerable reality among the people, especially the southeast coast.

For example, the "Imperial Examination Reform Regulations" has been booming since its opening, and various new studies have become very popular among enlightened scholars. However, because it is not included in the Imperial Examination entries, the newcomers who study these studies are inevitably criticized by old scholars as "not doing their jobs."

For example, the separation of financial power audits and county-level government affairs and legal affairs has been implemented in the Xinjiang territory of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Grand Secretary, Nanyang and other places, and Shanghai where the General Administration of the Maritime Conservancy Bureau is located.

The system and legislation of the Ming Dynasty were far from keeping up with the changes in reality. Even top bureaucrats such as Xu Jie and Gao Gong were secretive about the changes that had already occurred. Central officials turned a blind eye to the changes in government affairs and financial power in the southeast under the influence of Li Yanzhi, just doing it and not daring to say it, so as not to touch the foundation of the entire Ming Dynasty.

As for the selection of cabinet members, the Prime Minister's appointment was even more in accordance with the "rules" and did not dare to clearly propose to turn these official status into clear laws and regulations. The two Prime Minister Xu Jie, Gao Gong, undermined the emperor, and in the minds of many scholars and officials, it was still a "perversion" rather than a "normal" in the minds of many scholars and officials. The emperor was still the highest symbol of power in the written system and the people. Since this idea existed in people's hearts, as long as they changed together, Emperor Zhu Ming's power would be restored at any time, and it would definitely come very fiercely!

But Li Yanzhi wanted to poke this window paper at this time! He wanted to tell the "normality" of the chief minister in the world to take charge of national affairs, not "perversion", which almost overturned the legitimacy of the Zhu Ming Dynasty in terms of morality.

After reading this letter, Gao Gong actually had the urge to burn it quickly, but he still endured it. He was full of contradictions about Li Yanzhi's proposal.

After all, he has the heart to serve the country and the people. From this letter, he saw that Li Yanzhi's ideas were much broader than himself. He saw Li Yanzhi's sincerity in front of state affairs, and saw that if this country was reformed according to the construction of Zhenhai Gong, it might become better.

But he was an old-school bureaucrat after all, and was afraid of these new changes. He was not only afraid that he would lose power in this new change, but also afraid that the country would fall into chaos in this great change and be even fragmented. Just like the Han Dynasty, after Wang Mang's random reform, it inevitably declined!

Where should we go for the future? Gao Gong has no answer in his heart.

Zhang Juzheng and Li Chunfang were dealing with government affairs next to him. Occasionally, they glanced up at him, but they couldn't come to disturb him. Gao Gong suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind: "Yes, why not do I do this?" It turned out that he suddenly remembered, why not spread the content of this letter. After this thought, he thought more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more he thought it was a trick. He had expected that once the content of this letter was spread, it would inevitably cause a great shock in the government and the public!

If the government and the opposition support Li Yanzhi's suggestion, then Gao Gong might as well go with the flow, which will benefit the national affairs and can also achieve such great achievements. After all, Gao Gong does not have to go against Li Yanzhi in his heart. If cooperation is more beneficial to the country and himself, then cooperation is okay. Of course, if the government and the opposition criticize Li Yanzhi's proposal, then Gao Gong can also use this force to pour Li Yanzhi into it. However, he has decided that even if Li Yanzhi is over, he can still slowly implement some of the contents in this "Letter to Gao Pavilion".

He nodded slightly and greeted Zhang Juzheng and Li Chunfang and said, "Uncle, come and have a look. Duke Zhenhai has proposed a great strategy for planning the country!"

Zhang Juzheng and Li Chunfang looked at each other, stood up, took the letter from Gao Gong, covered with sweat from Shou Gong, and watched it alone.

Both of them have a talented talent at a glance. After just scanning their eyes, Li Chunfang was so scared that she almost jumped up. She let go of her letter and said in surprise: "This...This...Mr. Zhenhai made such an amazing argument! This...This..." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in.qidian., more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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