When Zhao Bing heard that all three concubines were pregnant, he was not surprised, but more of them were frightened. Thinking about how he was only sixteen years old this year, he was only a junior high school student in his previous life, and married a group of young girls. After a while, he was followed by a group of squeaking "little carrot bosses". How should he live this life?

"Official family, what's wrong with you? It's a happy event for all the students in the family!" Su Lan looked at the little emperor's face and looked so dark that she was crying without tears. She was completely different from the way others felt happy after learning that she had a chance, so she poured a glass of water for her.

"Sister Su, I have never been a father, and I don't know how to be a father!" Zhao Bing said with a sad face. He was a bachelor all his life in his previous life, and only had the experience of being a son. Judging from the fact that he was a father, it was suddenly his turn to be a father today, so he was not prepared at all.

"Official family, this... I will naturally know it if I have children!" Su Lan also had no way to answer this question, but she felt that His Majesty's question was funny and said with a smile.

"Oh, there are only three at once, I'm so worried!" Zhao Bing drank the water in the cup again and said.

"The official family is a happy event. The palace is added and the royal family is spreading. When the queen mother heard about it, she was so happy that she couldn't hold her mouth together. She must scold her when she saw the official family like this." Su Lan poured water for the emperor again.

"The Empress Dowager is also partial. Today I went to pay my respects. The Empress Dowager only left them for breakfast, but sent me back. Is it important to my son or grandson?" Zhao Bing drank the water in one sip and said angrily.

"The officials must have misunderstood. The Queen Mother left the Queen to speak for the sake of the talent show, and it was not intended to not leave the officials for meals." Seeing that the little emperor drank the water like wine, Su Lan only poured half a cup for him this time.

"Trial show?" Zhao Bing jumped up and shouted loudly as if he had been stepped on his tail.

"What's wrong with the official family? According to convention, some beautiful girls are selected in the palace every year and some people are released. Nowadays, several empresses are pregnant, so there should be more people serving the official family." Su Lan explained with a smile.

"The six concubines are enough. There is no need to waste money and disrupt the people." Zhao Bing waved his hand and said.

"The queen also reported the meaning of the official family to the empress dowager, but was refuted by the empress dowager." Su Lan said for the empress.

"Oh, she is sensible this time." Zhao Bing smiled. He understood that the most taboo thing about the queen as the lord of the harem was 'jealous'. She could not ruin the great affairs of the royal reproduction because of her own thoughts. Therefore, even if she was extremely reluctant, she had to arrange a talent show for the emperor's husband to enrich the harem, otherwise she would not perform her duties.

"The official family is really interesting. Even if the harems of emperors in all dynasties are not three thousand beauties, they are still seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards. The official family says six people are enough!" Su Lan said with a chuckling after hearing this, but looked up but found that His Majesty stared at him intently, touching his face and saying suspiciously, "Why do the official family look at me like this?"

"I'm wondering why it's not my sister who conceived?" Zhao Bing asked with his head tilted, his eyes still leaving Su Lan's face.

"Of course I am not lucky..." Su Lan lowered her head and said softly shyly and disappointedly. The handkerchief in her hand had been twisted into twists.

"I have promoted my sister to a concubine, so I can save the Queen Mother from worrying about it!" Zhao Bing said with a smile. He was the first woman he favored. If he was pregnant, he just needed to add a title. But things went against his wishes. Several of the others were pregnant, but he had to go with the flow.

"Official family... don't talk nonsense!" Su Lan whispered with a blushing face, "I have also heard that the Empress Dowager intends to transfer a few people from the palace servants selected last year, but I have passed away and I have no blessing."

"Did the Empress Dowager still want to carry the daughter of the Cheng family?" Zhao Bing immediately became alert and asked with a frown.

"Miss Cheng is both in terms of family background and in terms of sex and skills. Why do the officials have a grudge against her?" Su Lan asked back.

"The country is easy to change and its nature is hard to change. He has good looks and is quite talented, but his virtue is detrimental. Staying in the palace will inevitably cause trouble to the palace. This year, he will be released from the palace." Zhao Bing didn't want to play with any scheming in the palace, especially this lord is competitive, but narrow-minded and unable to tolerate others. Even if he doesn't relocate, his personality may threaten his life of an unborn child. He can only expel him from the palace as soon as possible to eliminate hidden dangers once and for all.

"If Miss Cheng is released from the palace, she will probably be rejected by the world and will be lonely forever." Su Lan softened her heart and said unbearable.

"That's nothing. It's much better than killing your family in the future, at least you can save your life." Zhao Bing said without any pity. However, he also knew that with the birth of the little lives, the harmonious situation in the palace might be broken, and a series of tragedies of brothers fighting each other. It's really annoying to think about it...

Although he was unprepared for Xi to come from the sky, Zhao Bing quickly accepted it. His energy quickly turned to the upcoming expedition to the west. Recently, he summoned officials of the Ministry of War one after another, inquired in detail about the preparation of food, equipment, clothing, military pay, military morale, etc., and summoned Jiang Jin, the commander of the western Jiangnan region, to enter Beijing, listen to his opinions, and work with the Privy Council to formulate a combat plan.

Of course, all this was carried out in secret, and only those who understand the situation were limited to the chief, deputy prime minister and minister, officials above the Minister of the Privy Council and the relevant officials. However, during the court meeting on the Western Expedition held today, he had differences with the ministers. According to his intention, the generals of the Western Expedition were also in charge of military and political affairs, so that even if unified command was strengthened, it was convenient to dispatch materials in the jurisdiction. However, his opinion was opposed by most people, even Chen Renweng and Jiang Hu were no exception, thinking that the court should send officials to command and coordinate the overall situation.

This incident made Zhao Bing very upset. His views were for combat needs, but the starting point of the ministers was the national system. In fact, the starting points of both sides were the same, both for the smooth recovery of Xichuan. There were differences in operations, but Zhao Bing could not convince the other party. However, when the war was about to begin, the upper class could not form a unity, which made him anxious and helpless.

"All under the sky is the king's land; the shore of the earth is the king's minister; the officials are uneven, and I am the only virtuous." It is Confucius' deletion of the Book of Songs and retained a folk song "Beishan" in the pre-Qin period. It is not only known to later generations, but also to scholars to prove the "family world" of China's political "family world". However, what people in later generations do not know is that there was another interpretation in the Song Dynasty, which also became the theoretical basis for the scholars and kings to rule the world together.

In the eyes of the scholars and officials of the Song Dynasty, the misunderstanding of this sentence is because they do not seek to understand it very much. In fact, the folk song "Beishan" expresses nothing about "family and the world" or "property rights", but the subjects complaining about the unfairness of the king's distribution of labor service: it is all for the king, why do I work so hard? Even if I take out the sentence "Is the whole world a king's land?", it describes the "tenure" state of land under the well field system, and does not mean that the land in the world belongs to the king's private ownership.

Moreover, since the disintegration of the feudal system since the Warring States Period, except for the short period of strict implementation of the equal-land system, China's land system has always been private ownership. Zhao Song established the country, "the land system did not establish" and "not suppressing annexation", and there is no question of "the whole world is the king's land". In other words, "the whole world is the king's land" is not a description of the ownership of property rights in the legal sense, but is only a declaration of sovereignty in the political sense.

In this way, the saying "All the world is the king's land" does have the flavor of "family and the world is the world", but the scholars of the Song Dynasty explained it and reversed its meaning: "The king has nothing to do with it. He regards the world as his family. All the land is his land, and all the people are his sons. The wealth and property are in the country, as if it is in the turmoil, let alone the tribute and taxes, what do you think of me? After reading the book, since "Yu Gong", no one has heard of the emperor having private money."

According to their explanation, "All under the world is the king's land" does not mean that the people have no selfless property. On the contrary, "All under the world is the king's land" means that the emperor has no selfless wealth and regards the world as his family. If we continue to infer: since the emperor is rich in all the world and regards the world as his family, he will not be allowed to make private property, nor will he squander excessively. The monarch's daily expenses are not a private matter, but a public matter. Therefore, it is necessary to accept the control of the government.

In addition, after Taizu established the country, he established a political system by decentralization and checks and balances. In the top-level design, in order to prevent the prime minister's power from being dominant and threatening the monarch's power, the Song Dynasty took three measures. First, the highest administrative agency was divided into the Secretariat and the Privy Council, and the part of the military power originally belonged to the Prime Minister was assigned to the Privy Council. Second, the General Secretary was added as the Deputy Prime Minister to prevent the prime minister from being proficient. In addition, the National Finance Department of the Three Divisions was added to separate the financial power from the Prime Minister.

In local governments, civil officials are sent to take charge of the prefectures and counties, directly responsible to the emperor, and a magistrate is set up to restrict the heads of the prefectures. On the prefectures, the main route-level institutions stationed on behalf of the central government are the Caosi, the Constitutional Department, the Cangsi and the Supervisor Department. The first three are in charge of the financial resources, judicial and relief of the route, and are responsible for the supervision of the prefectures and county officials. The Supervisor Department is responsible for military and public security. As a route-level institution, the four departments are both dedicated to their duties and inspect each other. This mutually restrained power structure seems to be a bunch of beds and houses, but it makes no local officials unable to be autocratic, and it is even more impossible for a disaster like the separatist vassal states to be severed.

Under this political system, a unique supervision mechanism was formed in the Song Dynasty. In order to prevent military generals who hold military power from abusing power or even separating the side, in addition to adopting the "soldiers do not know the generals do not know the soldiers" system, they often send troops to supervise the army. Under this system, generals leading the army often have to look at the face of the army supervisor. Not only are they bound by their hands and feet, but they will also delay the fighter's opportunity and even affect the trend of the entire war. This bloody lesson was common in the Song Dynasty, and so that Tong Guan, the eunuch, was a strange thing that led to the war. The demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was not unrelated to this system.

However, Zhao Bing could not refute the ministers. In the Battle of Xiangfan at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was precisely because of the betrayal of the Lu brothers that the Lianghuai fell and finally led to the destruction of the country. In their opinion, the fundamental reason was the court's trust in Lv Wende. The failure to send important officials to control the Lianghuai according to the ancestors, which led to him losing supervision, deceiving his superiors and concealing his subordinates and constantly growing, resulting in the court losing control of him, leading to the failure of the entire Anti-Mongol War.

The geographical location of Xichuan is equally important, while Chongqing blocks the waterway from the Yangtze River to the middle and lower reaches, and can seize Sichuan and Shu to the west. The ministers thought that after seizing Chongqing, once the generals led the troops had a rebellion, as long as they controlled the Yangtze River waterway, they could block the rebellion army, and to the west, they could occupy Sichuan, thus breaking away from the court and becoming king in Sichuan and Shu.

At that moment, the two sides with disagreements were in a deadlock, but the horn of the war had sounded and tens of thousands of soldiers were ready to go. Zhao Bing was unwilling to give up this opportunity no matter what, but if the stalemate continued, he would miss the fighter's opportunity, and it was difficult for him to accept the compromise. While he was thinking hard, Wang De came in and said that the two governors Ying Jieyan and Liu Fu asked for an interview, saying that the first draft of the imperial edict had been completed and asked His Majesty to review it.

Zhao Bing smiled knowingly after hearing this. He knew that the two old men must have come for this matter. After all, the stalemate would lead to the intensification of the conflict, which was something that no one wanted to see. So he came to discuss under the name of a book and seeking a solution. Of course, he invited him. But unexpectedly, the two old men really brought a stack of manuscripts. He didn't have the time to read it carefully at this moment, so he asked them to explain the narrative casually.

The two looked at each other and did not seem to use this as a pestle. Liu Fu first explained it, while Zhao Bing could only sit down and listen as before. He started with the strict political system of China in history, which is equivalent to the preface of this book. In essence, the administrative system in ancient China was a centralized bureaucratic political system, and the state's administrative agencies were pyramid-like hierarchical structures. Local administrative agencies and counties at the second level were all dispatched agencies of the central government in the local area, not autonomous institutions that were created by the local government.

Under the imperial system, how to make such a huge bureaucratic machine work effectively has become a problem that Chinese thinkers must face since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Therefore, the background and origin of the Chinese supervision system are the problem of how to regulate this huge bureaucratic machine after the centralized bureaucracy was formed during the Warring States Period. In traditional Chinese culture, Confucianism focuses on ethical concepts, emphasizes governing the country with etiquette, and through etiquette systems, we can determine the hierarchical order between people from the family to the country and the entire society.

However, how this huge bureaucratic machine operates from top to bottom and relies exclusively on the etiquette system is insufficient. It requires laws to unify the bureaucratic institutions at all levels of the country to implement corresponding policies and policies, and how to ensure that officials at all levels truly implement the policies and laws stipulated by the central government, then supervision will be put on the agenda.
Chapter completed!