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In the end of July, Li Hu arrived in Chang'an...

Li Hu has left Chang'an since the Western Expedition. It has been almost two years now. It has been too long since he stayed away from the center. The series of changes in Chang'an made him feel dazzled.

Luo Sinan and the Imperial Brigade decided to hold a grand ceremony in Chang'an to welcome Li Hu and the expeditionary army back to Beijing.

The ceremony was very successful. Chang'an was immersed in the ocean of joy, and the festive atmosphere continued until August.

Li Hu was very busy and was involved in the banquet and among all kinds of people. It was not until the sixth day of the August 19th that he attended the court meeting once and reported to the emperor and all officials about the conquest.

The Yuqianshi is a supreme authority for Luo Sinan and Chang'an to compromise with each other. Now that Li Hu is back, as the regent, he has the power equivalent to the Yuqianshi. So is there still a need for Yuqianshi? Is Li Hu willing to share his power with other prime ministers?

When all the priests believed that the mission of the Imperial Master had ended, Li Hu made an unexpected decision to continue to retain the temporary supreme authority of the Imperial Master.

The current situation is not good, and Li Hu does not have the conditions to ascend the throne and become emperor. In the future, he will lead his army to conquer, before Middle-earth is unified. Before Middle-earth is not stable, hasty proclaiming emperor is likely to trigger a series of conflicts, which will eventually lead to failure. Therefore, Li Hu is very cautious. After careful consideration, he decided to retain the Imperial Front Office to maximize the ease of conflicts between various forces in Chang'an.

In addition, there is another biggest reason, which is what Li Hu, Luo Sinan and a group of ministers are thinking about, that is, does the central government need to be highly centralized? Is the imperial power as concentrated as possible?

In order to achieve high centralization of power in the Song Dynasty, its basic national policy was to go from the central government to the local government, from the military to administrative, finance, supervision, and implement high decentralization. Everyone has seen the consequences of high decentralization. At its peak, the Song Dynasty suddenly collapsed due to the invasion of northern enemies. Of course, there are many reasons for the collapse, but in the final analysis, it was caused by excessive "decentralization". Excessive "decentralization" indeed created a high degree of centralization. The emperor monopolized the power. From the perspective of the emperor, it was of course a good thing. I thought that the country would be protected forever from now on, but the facts proved that this was wrong and it was impossible to succeed.

After Li Hu controlled the authority, he presided over the reform. The primary national policy of the reform was "decentralization". Power must be "divided", which should be restrained and supervised, but this "divided" cannot be excessive. Excessively, it will cause chaos, lose control, and eventually become uncontrollable. When the power of the central, local and military is divided layer by layer, the unparalleled power in the hands of the emperor was actually greatly weakened, and no policy or order could be passed on in the end, because the power below was too dispersed, and no one could bear the responsibility, and no one was willing to bear the responsibility. As a result, government orders were not implemented and state affairs were in chaos.

The series of reforms of the Chang'an court in the official system reflect the "limited decentralization", but the biggest disadvantage of limited decentralization is that the central government's power is weakened and the imperial power is weakened, which is not conducive to the long-term stability of the country. Therefore, how to handle the relationship between imperial power and ministerial power has become the most headache for the Chang'an court, and it is also the most debate and the most involved in interests.

Li Hu must seize the Zhao family's Song Dynasty, and he wants to ascend the throne and become emperor. Before he ascends the throne, he will of course try his best to weaken the imperial power in order to gain great power. When he ascends the throne and becomes emperor, he will also monopolize the power, so he will quickly enhance the imperial power, and the contradictions are very prominent.

The appearance of the Yuqiansi solved Li Hu's problem to some extent and alleviated the fierce contradictions contained in it. Before he became an emperor, he could use the Yuqiansi to weaken the imperial power. When he became an emperor, he could revoke this temporary highest decision-making body at any time and then take back the power.

However, the same problem arises. How to distribute the imperial power and ministerial power? The Song Dynasty paid a heavy price for it because of its high concentration of imperial power. The new dynasty must learn from the lessons and cannot repeat the same mistakes. So, in the new dynasty, how should the imperial power and ministerial power be distributed?

Li Hu saw a solution to the problem in the temporary decision-making body of the Yuqiansi. The Yuqiansi was actually equivalent to the past Yuqiansi decision-making meeting. The emperor and the prime minister sat together to discuss state affairs and make decisions. Therefore, this Yuqiansi decision-making meeting was a combination of imperial power and ministerial power to some extent. The imperial power and ministerial power compromised each other at this decision-making meeting and finally reached an agreement.

The emperor cannot do everything himself. He has only one head and can only do his own thing. The ministers and ministers perform their own duties and have specific tasks, and cannot make various decisions on behalf of the emperor. Therefore, if a dynasty wants to be stable, prosperous and strong, the imperial power and the prime minister must be their own position and do their own things well. If either party violates the other party's power, it will eventually cause turmoil in the dynasty.

For the sake of present and future, Li Hu chose to retain the Imperial Principal and did not make any changes to its status, powers and personnel. Whether this temporary highest decision-making body can ultimately resolve the fierce conflict between imperial power and ministerial power, and whether it can bring stability and prosperity to Middle-earth will take a long time to practice and improve. Li Hu hopes that it will give a satisfactory answer when he ascended the throne and became emperor.

The Yuqianshi was retained and everyone was happy, but each party had a different understanding of Li Hu's decision.

In the eyes of Hu Lie Ren, this is a signal that Li Hu will soon change his dynasty. Li Hu pacified the southeast and was close to the goal of unification. As long as Li Hu took over Hebei and Youyan and achieved unification, then it would be a natural thing for him to ascend the throne and become emperor, and no one can stop him.

For the old bureaucrats in Chang'an, this was a major compromise between Li Hu and the Hu Lie people. Li Hu and the Hu Lie people could not be considered as the people of the Song Dynasty, or the Chinese. Their foundation in Middle-earth was too shallow. When the Hu Lie people occupied the northwest, their territory was not large and they could barely deal with it. But now the unification of Middle-earth was right in front of us. Such a huge territory must be governed by the Chinese. At most, the Hu Lie people could only control the center. Especially with the increasing local power, Li Hu's dependence on the Chinese became the key to his life and death. Therefore, Li Hu had to compromise, otherwise, who would he rely on to control and govern such a huge dynasty?

For emerging forces represented by wealthy businessmen, this is a major and decisive support given to them by Li Hu. Retaining the Imperial Front Office can retain Changsun Kangning's power to participate in decision-making. Otherwise, with Changsun Kangning's identity and status, it would be difficult to reach the top of the sky and the resistance would be too great. It would be almost impossible for the next ten or even twenty years. At the time, Luo Sinan established the Imperial Front Office and did not stipulate the official position and rank of the Imperial Front Office personnel, which was to bring Changsun Kangning into the decision-making level. Now this measure has become the only way for emerging forces to participate in and influence decision-making.

Different forces have different understandings and interpretations of Li Hu's decisions, so the countermeasures they come up with are naturally different.

For the sake of their future, the Huli people put aside their conflicts and devoted themselves to the vast and complicated affairs of helping Li Hu ascend the throne and establishing a new dynasty.

The old bureaucrats in Zhongtu also temporarily put aside the conflicts between various factions, worked closely together, and tried every means to delay Li Hu usurp the great Song Dynasty.

Now they no longer have any illusions about maintaining the Zhao Song Dynasty. The Southeast court has basically been destroyed, and the Zhao royal family has basically lost the hope of re-emerging in Middle-earth. Sooner or later, this country belongs to Li Hu. There is no doubt that if they go against Li Hu in this matter and fight against the Huli people, they are purely seeking death. Therefore, from reality, their goal has been changed to protecting their own interests.

The official system of the Song Dynasty was implemented for more than a hundred years, and various policies were extremely inclined to the bureaucratic class, including Wang Anshi's reforms and Cai Jing's new policies, which did not touch the interests of the bureaucratic class. On the contrary, they further protected the interests of the bureaucratic class. However, Li Hu's reforms endangered their interests at an unprecedented speed and were a serious threat, which forced them to unite and fight together. From this point of view, they needed to delay the time for Li Hu to ascend the throne and become emperor in order to restore their former huge forces in the central and local areas. Once this force is restored to its past power, it will be difficult for Li Hu's reforms to continue. At least it will be difficult to continue in depth and not seriously endanger the vested interests of the bureaucratic class.

For the emerging forces in Chang'an, this is the best opportunity for their rise. For this reason, they have to spare no effort to help Li Hu ascend the throne and become emperor. Li Hu became the emperor and the national policy continued to stabilize so that they could realize their dreams. But their biggest dream was not to seize power, but to use the seized power to protect and accumulate more wealth. This is their ultimate goal. Therefore, they must speed up the pace of change and speed up the implementation of new policies, so as to gain more opportunities to win amazing wealth.

The countermeasures of different forces are different, and their opinions on decision-making are also completely different.

Li Hu explained the current situation in the north in detail at the meeting of the Imperial Front Office, and proposed to increase troops to serve the north, and even go to war with the Jin army. For this reason, he advanced the Northern Expedition. He planned to attack Hebei and Youyan under the court's financial permission and unify Zhongtu as soon as possible.

The tiger and fierce people agreed unanimously.

The old bureaucrats in China and Turkey were cautious and believed that there was no possibility of improvement in the court's finances in the short term, and the Northern Expedition strategy might be difficult to implement.

Changsun Kangning, the representative of emerging forces, not only firmly supported it, but also proposed a package of plans to raise military supplies for the Northern Expedition on the spot. He was still the old method, but the target had been transferred to the wealthy merchants and wealthy people in the southeast. These people had huge wealth in their hands. As long as the court was willing to use preferential policies to lend to credit, military supplies for the Northern Expedition would not be a problem.
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