Li Chengqian only found out about King Jing’s secret return to Chang’an three days later.

This is of course because all the gentry in Chang'an City are now dissatisfied with Li Chengqian and are covering up for King Jing.

Li Chengqian knew that since King Jing had returned to Chang'an, the day they would rebel was not far away.

So I invited Li Shimin out to shock the court, so as to save the opportunity of some people who should not have stood in the wrong team and also stood in the wrong team. At least there were not so many rebellions once, so that he had the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

In Li Shimin's bedroom.

Li Shimin leaned sideways on the Arhat bed and Li Chengqian's legs.

The Secretariat Yang Shidao, the Secretariat Ma Zhou, the Secretariat Zhang Chengxing, the Secretariat of the Secretariat Zhang Province, the Secretariat Gao Shilian of the Secretariat of Pingzhangyuan, and others sat around the side of the bed and looked at the energetic Li Shimin, and felt much more at ease.

"In the former Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu thought the prime minister had too much power, so he used the censors to restrain the prime minister, and later he used the ministers in the Shangshutai to exercise the power of the prime minister. When Emperor Wu died, the Grand Sima led the Shangshu to be the real prime minister. This real prime minister often had to take charge of the palace and court, and his power was far greater than that of the prime minister in the early Han Dynasty."

"It was indeed too much for Emperor Wu of Han to abolish rituals and use private matters." Li Shimin criticized Emperor Wu when he heard this.

Then hesitated to what he and Li Chengqian had done recently, and said, "I want to choose a wise minister to serve as the Minister of State. I wonder if anyone can choose you?"

This is why Li Shimin is willing to correct his mistakes. As soon as he heard Li Chengqian say that Emperor Wu of Han changed the power of the prime minister and made the Grand Sima become bigger, he thought about promoting the people to be the Shangshu Ling again.

The ministers were stunned when they heard this. Shangshu Ling was the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not abolish it.

However, because Li Shimin was the Minister of State to launch the Xuanwu Incident, after Li Shimin ascended the throne, he did not arrange for ministers to take up this position, which made the Minister of State's left and right servants become prime ministers.

In recent years, Li Shimin, the left and right Pushe of the Shangshu, was not happy, so he followed Li Chengqian to set up a Grand Secretary of Pingzhang Academy. In the past year, Pushe did not arrange for ministers to serve.

Now Li Shimin suddenly proposed to find someone to serve as Shangshu Ling. The ministers didn't know how to speak for a while, and saw Li Chengqian shook his hand to everyone, turned his head to Li Shimin and said, "Father, please listen to my son's words."

When Li Shimin said the words and saw the performance of the ministers, he felt anxious. He heard this and said, "Chengqian will continue."

Li Chengqian continued to hear this: "There were twelve ministers under the former Prime Minister's Mansion. When the Grand Sima led the service, they were all Sima recruited them by themselves. In this way, not only did the Prime Minister's vain the twelve ministers who made the Prime Minister's Mansion also become vain.

The court's power to govern the world was also owned by the Grand Sima or General. All of these generals knew that there were Huo Guang, Dou Xian, Wang Feng, Wang Mang, Dong Xian, and He Jin."

Everyone in the palace felt a little sad when they heard Li Chengqian mentioning these people. These people felt complicated by their feelings about them from the standpoint of ministers and emperors.

First of all, Huo Guang and Dou Xian were both considered people who had made contributions to the court to the Chinese nation. After Emperor Wu of Han died, Emperor Zhao saved the Han Dynasty from his childhood. Emperor Zhao had long been killed and he made him the emperor. He was lazy and abandoned the sea and was waiting to establish Emperor Xuan of Han.

Later generations often compared him with the famous Shang Dynasty prime minister Yi Yin to think that they were both loyal ministers, but in history, Chu Suiliang told Li Shimin that Liu Shimin claimed to be Yin Huo, and Li Shimin did not hesitate to kill this minister he originally admired very much.

Dou Xian was the uncle of Emperor Ming of Han once led a large army to attack Yanran Mountain, and Yanran's stone siege was his allusion.

But he became a powerful minister and threatened Emperor Ming of Han. Emperor Ming of Han later dismissed Dou Xian with the help of the eunuchs and issued an order to kill him.

Li Shimin's apology for Li Chengqian to exile Changsun Wuji, which means that he is also very cautious about such relatives.

The others are all people related to the demise of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Feng was Wang Mang's uncle and became the Grand Sima as a relative, which played a prelude to Wang Mang's later replacing the Western Han Dynasty.

Needless to say, Wang Mang.

Dong Xian was the male favorite of Emperor Ai of Han. Emperor Ai of Han could not bear to wake up the sleeping Dong Xian and cut off his sleeves. Their allusions were called the habit of breaking sleeves by later generations.

Judging from Li Shimin's attitude towards sympathy, you will know what he is towards Dong Xianhui.

Later, after Emperor Ai of Han died, Dong Xian was also taken down by Wang Mang and committed suicide.

Anyone who has watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms knows that he is the brother-in-law of Emperor Ling of Han, the uncle of Emperor Shao of Han, and the general of Emperor Ling of Han and Emperor Shao of Han, and he summoned Dong Zhuo to Chang'an.

From then on, Dong Zhuo abolished Shao Emperor and established Emperor Xian, where did the world chaos begin?

Everyone understood that Li Chengqian wanted to say that the powerful ministers were terrible. Li Shimin kept thinking in his heart whether to appoint the Shangshu Ling again. Although the ministers were thinking a lot, they did not dare to speak rashly. At this time, if they violated the taboos of these two men, their lives would be difficult to protect.

After a while, Suiliang said seriously, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, the Later Han Dynasty was destroyed by the autocracy of eunuchs. Emperor Ling of Han favored the ten regular attendants, which caused trouble to the court..."

Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "What Master Zhu said is indeed good, but don't forget that the Later Han Dynasty was the interchange of the power of the eunuchs and the eunuchs."

When Zhu Suiliang heard this, he had to admit that what Li Chengqian said was the truth, and the ministers stopped talking.

Li Chengqian looked calmly and slowly glanced at the ministers. Seeing that the ministers were all thinking, he continued: "The Lonely King summoned you to the bed of my father today to discuss the unchanging method of our Tang Dynasty for generations. Don't think too much."

After hearing this, the ministers hurriedly stood up and saluted Li Chengqian and said, "I will obey the order!"

Seeing this, Li Shimin waved his hand to signal the ministers to sit down, and said with relief: "I have been sick these days and can only support the court by the ministers. The matters discussed today are related to the affairs of our Tang Dynasty for generations. You only need to speak freely."

Ma Zhou stood up and smiled and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince is a talented person. I will listen to the great discussion of the Crown Prince's Palace first. If I can pick up the remains and make up for the shortcomings, it will be a blessing for me."

All the ministers admired Ma Zhou's urgent talent, and they really didn't dare to talk nonsense in front of Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin nodded after hearing this, saying, "Then Chengqian will tell you what you think first."

When Li Chengqian heard this, he gave Li Shimin a wink, then looked at the ministers and said, "Mr. Zhu just talked about the autocracy of the eunuchs in the Later Han Dynasty. I wonder if you have noticed that the authority of the former Han and the Later Han Dynasty moved to the rear of the palace as the later period went.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, because the Censor Zhongcheng, the Censor, was in the palace, was in charge of the Censor Zhongcheng, so Emperor Wu initially used the Censor to divide the power of the Prime Minister.

Later, the Censor Zhongcheng was not convenient and used the Shangshutai. The Shangshutai was originally under the jurisdiction of the eunuchs in the palace. After being sentenced, the Taishigong served as the Shangshuling.

In the Later Han emperors often ascended the throne when they were young. The empress dowager was in power with the rule of foreign relatives, but the empress dowager was in charge of government affairs and was eunuchs.

The little emperor was born in the hands of women in the deep palace and could not reach ministers at all. The powerful ministers in the court covered the sky with one hand. Who would he not use eunuchs?”

"Your Majesty!" Gao Shilian looked at Li Shimin with a worried look on his face.

Li Chengqian stated a fact, but the ministers present changed their faces when they heard this. They did not dare to contradict Li Chengqian and looked at Li Shimin on the sickbed.

Li Shimin said helplessly: "Chengqian, please speak well."

Li Chengqian nodded at Li Shimin after hearing this, turned his head and looked at the ministers and said in a stressful tone: "Whether you do things or do knowledge, you must say "seeking truth from facts". The real things that have happened in facts are seeking, and "yes" is the root cause. If you cannot put the problem out in a realistic way and find out the root cause, you cannot solve the problem."

When the ministers heard this, they looked at each other. Li Chengqian actually taught them, but what Li Chengqian said made sense. He couldn't refute it and had to stand up and bow, "I'm sorry to follow the teachings of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian and his ministers and felt deeply moved, thinking that if he really left, who would reconcile between Li Chengqian and his ministers.

"The Gu Wang just said that the former Han Dynasty was because the emperor or the empress dowager who was in power lived in the deep palace, and the foreign ministers were all at the mercy of the powerful ministers, so they could only use the people around them more and more.

The Lone King now puts this problem out to prevent this from happening in my Tang Dynasty.”

"Your Highness the Crown Prince admires you for his far-sightedness." Seeing that Li Chengqian suppressed the ministers, Ma Zhou jumped out to flatter him.

Li Chengqian was not grateful and waved his hand and said, "Don't say this for now. Listen to the Lone King, you can pick up the rest and make up for the shortcomings."

If you want to prevent powerful ministers from decentralizing power, you must decentralize power. Now the three provinces and six ministries system in the Tang Dynasty is the decentralization strategy of the former Sui Dynasty."

Li Shimin and his ministers couldn't help but nodded in agreement after hearing this.

Li Chengqian continued: "But this decentralization of power cannot completely solve the problem, and sometimes it can even cause the government orders to be blocked. This is because the power of the six ministries is light."

The six ministries are light?

The ministers had a strife.

You should know that in the Tang Dynasty, the Shangshu Ling was the second rank, the left and right Pushe was the second rank, the Sixth Ministry of the Shangshu Ling and the Menxia Provincial Shizhong were also the third rank. Therefore, the Sixth Ministry of the Shangshu Ling was not low in the early Tang Dynasty.

Li Chengqian ignored everyone's surprise gaze and directly expressed his opinion.

"Now the six ministries can only handle some lock-ups in the headquarters, and do more or upload and issue matters. However, if there is a problem below, no matter which department, it can only report the problem to the court and send another official to handle it, and it is absolutely impossible to send personnel to the court to handle it.

If such government affairs are too much, the power of the people in power in the court will inevitably become a powerful minister."

Li Shimin and his ministers nodded after hearing this. If the prime minister overruled the power and commanded the six local ministries, he would naturally have greater power.

Li Chengqian looked at everyone's expression of approval, and then said, "In this way, the Lone King also heard that the six ministries had a lot of backlog of official duties, so he decided to send Duke Shen and Master Zhu to inspect."

The ministers knew what they said, and Li Chengqian called everyone to inspect the six ministries.

Gao Shilian and Zhu Suiliang hurriedly stood up and saluted Li Chengqian and said, "I will inspect carefully and will never let down the painstaking efforts of His Highness the Crown Prince!"

"The two Qings are in a fair family, and the Lone King has a few words to say."

As he said that, Li Chengqian stood up, and the ministers stood up and stood up obediently when they saw this, waiting to listen to Li Chengqian's lecture.

Li Chengqian was not polite and said directly: "Since you all know the importance of inspecting the six ministries, then the Gu Wang also asks you to cooperate here to inspect the Gao Qing family and the Qian Qing family. Let us all find out the accumulated problems of the six ministries, and then discuss how to deal with and strengthen the authority of the six ministries."

"I will obey the order!" the ministers said in unison.
Chapter completed!