For Li Ze, whether it is the upcoming battle in Jiangxi or Liu Chenglin's attack on Hanzhong, it is just a war similar to a rebellion in some areas, and it is no longer worth his attention to it.

Qianzhou surrendered, Fujian was taken back, and Nanzhao resigned, and only Lingnan was left within the entire territory, Rongguan Gui and Yizhou were the places like before.

In the face of the general trend, there may be repeated wars in these places and setbacks, but it is impossible to reverse the situation of unification in the world.

Compared to these wars, what he had told Liu Ruyan earlier was what really made him scratch his head.

Anything that can be solved with a battle is not a difficult task for the current Tang Dynasty.

For example, Guo Fengxiao proposed the work of comprehensively rectifying the Yellow River.

The Yellow River has always been like a sharp sword hanging over the head of the court. You don’t know when it will fall down and punish you severely. To remediate the Yellow River, it involves not just money, but to integrate the Yellow River, it is necessary to integrate all the forces of the places where the Yellow River passes, work together, and work together to achieve success, so that this matter can be accomplished many years later.

Based on this, Guo Fengxiao proposed to set up a nationwide yamen for flood control to coordinate this matter, which is a necessary step.

Based on Guo Fengxiao's report, Xu Xiang suggested establishing a special Ministry of Water Resources to coordinate the matter, which was exactly in response to the political reform that he had been working hard to refine and respond to the political reforms that professionals do professional things.

As an ally of Xu Xiang, Chen Wenliang is now carrying out political reforms in Hebei, with a series of new yamen established, and at the same time, the power of the old yamen has been largely decomposed into these newly established departments.

Although Li Ze did not make any public statement, in fact, he supported doing so.

It’s a very simple thing. Such reforms are actually another round of power collection behavior in the center.

In other words, the court is still trying its best to cut off the power of the governors of provinces in various places.

Take the Ministry of Water Resources, which Xu Xiang is preparing to establish, once successful, a vertical management line can be formed from the center to the local area, and the factors restricted by the will of the local chief will be greatly reduced. In response, the influence of the local government on corresponding personnel, finance and other powers has dropped sharply.

In the past, river management was carried out independently by provinces. The center allocated corresponding funds to the bottom according to local reports, and the local government allocated funds to the bottom. Once the center established such a special department, the local government must allocate money in proportion as before, but in terms of specific personnel and how to use the money, it would not have the same decision-making ability as before, which would naturally cause dissatisfaction among local officials.

So it seems that a new department is established, but in fact, it is related to the power game between the entire court and the local government. No one will think that there is too much power in their hands. If they can hold it in their hands, they will naturally have to find ways to grasp it in their hands.

In Xu Xiang's view, such actions have greatly waste the country's administrative resources and financial resources. If a new department can be established to coordinate and plan from top to bottom, concentrate on major tasks, and handle them one by one, it will be much better than the current efficiency.

The game between the two sides is now in a tug-of-war period. The establishment of the Ministry of Water Resources is just an introduction. Once this opening is opened, the local government will inevitably lose its game with the central government. Therefore, the debate on this matter is getting louder and louder, and it is very likely to be placed on the Yixing Society Conference to be held at the end of this year for a public vote.

This also made Xu Xiang and the governors from all over the country shift the battlefield of their battle to winning the support of representatives from all over the country.

The resolution of the Yixingshe Congress is the final resolution. Even with the honor of Emperor Li Ze, the resolution passed by the Yixingshe Congress cannot be rejected. This is clearly written into the constitution of the Congress. On such a congress, Li Ze and the chairmen of several other committees still have only one vote.

Speaking of which, it seems that Xu Xiang is in a very unfavorable situation in this game. After all, each province has an inevitable influence on the representatives of the provinces, and this also affects the most basic interests of each province. But in fact, Xu Xiang has many supporters.

First, representatives from various central government departments must support Xu Xiang, which is of great benefit to their strengthening of their status. Once completed, the impact of the central government on the local area will definitely increase greatly in the future.

Second, the Qinghai-Tibet, the Western Regions, and the Northeastern provinces, including those where the economy is just starting and the finances are difficult, are supported. Because of this, they can get a lot of support from the central government. Some large projects that they want to do but have no strength can be led by the central government. In this way, there is not much investment in the place, but they can get great benefits, thus completing a leap in the economy. In today's era when the Tang Dynasty's court evaluates officials as heroes based on GDP, no one wants their own data to be too ugly.

Think about it, at the end of each year, when the front page of the Tang Weekly published the GDP data of each province that they counted, the data that were ranked at the end was quite different from other provinces, and some people's faces must be extremely ugly.

Third, the army actually supports it. This matter has little to do with the army, but because Li Ze would support this motion, the army would inevitably follow suit.

In fact, it was Li Ze himself who set this in advance. The Jing'an Army was a living example.

The so-called Jing'an Army is actually the local armed forces in the past. However, during the previous dynasty, they were called county soldiers, county soldiers, government soldiers, etc., and were actually controlled by the local government.

When the court was strong, these local armed forces certainly only played a role in maintaining public order, but when the center was weak, it was difficult to say about these local armed forces. Think about the past few armed forces under the command of the Jiedushi, a considerable number of these local armed forces developed by such local armed forces.

Li Ze integrated it, organized it, and then established the Jing'an Army. It implemented semi-militarized management, and vertical management was implemented from the center to the local government. The only person who has the right to appoint it in the local government was the commander of the Jing'an Army at the county level. When it arrived at the prefecture level, it needed the consent of the Jing'an Army. When it arrived at the provincial line, it was already a formal senior officer sequence. It was this integration that allowed the court to take back all the military power in the country, thus making it impossible for local officials to enter military forces again.

However, this time the rectification was led by Li Ze, and the matter involved a more sensitive military force, so there was basically no voice of opposition. The journey was completed smoothly.

However, this reform has touched the core interests of local governments. It would be strange if they do not fight.

Overall, the balance of power between the two sides can still be called equal.

Li Ze is not going to intervene.

Even though he still has the ability to make a decision now.

As long as he spoke, many of the local representatives were afraid that they would immediately agree to this reform, but Li Ze was not prepared to do so.

He hopes these people have their own judgment.

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What exactly is better for this country. He hopes that these representatives can make their own choices instead of blindly following, otherwise he will set up such a congress in vain.

For a period of time, the Tang Dynasty Weekly has been celebrating the benefits of establishing a special Ministry of Water Resources. This is the benefit of controlling public opinion. From the presence of the Yellow River in history, to the present, river management has been governed throughout the years, why hasn’t it been cured? Why is there always countless people who lose their money every few years?

After reading these articles published in the Tang Dynasty Weekly, Li Ze couldn't help but be amazed by it and praised Xu Xiang's actions.

According to the information from the internal security department, after these articles were published, Shandong, Henan and other places, which originally had the majority of the opposition, have begun to gradually reverse. The reason is that these places were just remediated by the Yellow River last year, and the people still remember them vividly.

The Chang'an Weekly founded by Xue Ping wrote without hesitation to criticize the local opposition for disregarding national affairs for their own selfish interests. Unlike the Tang Dynasty Weekly, which was controlled by the imperial court, the criticism of Chang'an Weekly is more direct and sharp. This newspaper was originally a famous document for evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the court's policies. Although it was founded for a short time, it was very famous in China. As the current political discussion and editor-in-chief of Chang'an Weekly, Xue Ping, who was a famous guy who picked the emperor's sarcasm. Although he was angry everywhere, he was helpless with it.

Although Xue Ping usually criticized Xu Xiang for many of his policies, he strongly supported Xu Xiang on this matter. It was nothing more. Xue Ping was a person who wanted to try his best to weaken local power and strengthen central power.

As things progressed step by step, Xu Xiang's faction gradually gained the upper hand. It has to be said that the power of public opinion played a huge role in this debate.

Li Ze believes that after this confrontation, many people will definitely understand the importance of controlling the right to speak on public opinion. If you can't say the next step, newspapers and other things in various places will grow like mushrooms after a rain.

Li Ze thinks this is a good thing.

The people can be ordered, and then they should be followed.

People should not be allowed to use it, so know it.
Chapter completed!