It has been three months since Zhao Weiji ascended the throne. During these three months, ordinary ministers in the court did not feel much change. It is not like Zhao Guangyi's removal of dissidents as soon as he came to power, nor is it like Zhao Heng who began to implement his own ideas after he came to power.

This emperor, who was born as a vassal king, seemed to have no ideals, but he never proposed any plans that belonged to him. Everything was still in accordance with the previous rules.

Perhaps the only change was the formation of a small group led by Kou Zhun. The emperor had to discuss the memorials he received every day, and there were no more changes.

This small group was led by a minister of the Secretariat, Pingzhang and two officials from the magistrates, and was also accompanied by the chief and deputy chiefs of the Privy Council and the Third Department, plus some officials from other important departments.

Zhao Weiji found them a special office space in the palace. When processing memorials every day, he handed over different types of memorials to the heads of the special department for processing. After processing them on the spot, he reviewed them on the spot, and then handed them over to the emperor for review on the spot. After reviewing them, he handed them back for execution.

This directly condensed the three provinces and six ministries system that lasted from the Li Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty. Although it was still formulated, reviewed, and carried out three processes, it avoided the back and forth transmission between departments and avoided the possibility of being beaten.

However, other general officials did not see this because there was not much other people who knew how to do this. They only knew that the memorials handed over the past one or two months could basically be answered in one day, and the efficiency was amazing.

The reason why Zhao Weiji did this was not only too wasteful of time when the back and forth between the ministries in the past, he also wanted to slowly form something similar to the later cabinet of the Ming Dynasty.

It all means that the bastard emperor came out of the court. But it was this bastard emperor flying all over the sky. The absurd dynasty that did not attend court for the entire Ming Dynasty had reached the duration of the dynasty for about 276 years.

The most critical factor is the cabinet politics that gradually took shape in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the cabinet politics of the Ming Dynasty, state power became two parts, including the votes of cabinet ministers and the emperor's criticism of the dividends (although the criticism of the dividends was mostly controlled by eunuchs).

This is somewhat like the later dual constitutional monarchy of capitalist countries. The state had a cabinet responsible for its operation, and the emperor was only responsible for appointing the cabinet and agreed to or vetoing the governing plan proposed by the cabinet.

The cabinet decides how the plan is formulated and how it is implemented, and the cabinet is responsible to the emperor.

In Zhao Weiji's mind, this political system is very suitable for a country with deep-rooted monarchy. First of all, the monarch still has great power. Unlike the later parliamentary constitutional monarchy, the monarch only has the right to agree.

In the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty, the monarch still retained great national rights, but the specific operation was only the cabinet responsible, so that the rise and fall of the country could be avoided from being entirely dependent on the monarch.

After all, looking at history, there are only a few good emperors, ten fingers are not enough, and ten toes are counted. You cannot guarantee that the hereditary throne will be produced by elites from generation to generation.

But ministers are different. Any minister who can achieve the position of dominance has not been overcome and climbed up. As long as they are not eliminated, they will inevitably have extraordinary advantages. The risk of the state being handed over to these people to manage something is much smaller.

What's more, there is another advantage in using ministers to dominate the country's governance, that is, if we don't work, we will change people. It is much easier to change prime minister than to change emperors.

However, these things have to be done step by step. Now the entire country is basically tied to Zhao Weiji alone, after all, this is just the beginning.

Next, Zhao Weiji planned to read the six ministries, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple that matched the Ministry of Justice, and directly take responsibility to the emperor, so that the judicial authorities will become emperor-level institutions separated from the court and will not be affected by any personnel and affairs other than the emperor.

However, Zhao Weiji is not planning to do this for the time being, because there are too many things to touch on this. The examples of Shang Yang, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng told Zhao Weiji that reformers generally have no good ending, even if their reforms are correct and beneficial to the country.

Therefore, Zhao Weiji, who had already taken up the throne, had to take any reforms that might touch the interests of the vested persons step by step. It would be best to boil the frogs in warm water. When they reacted, they were already scalded to death.

This cabinet is the first step, and the second step is the "entrepreneurs" who were found by Zhao Weiji.

In the past three months, Zheng County, west of Kaifeng Prefecture, has suddenly undergone great changes, and many buildings like workshops have been built, but much larger than workshops.

Also, the commercial activities in Bianliang City are more prosperous than before. Many of the previous restrictions on business were quietly eliminated by Zhao Weiji using the means of changing concepts. Generally, ministers who have not passed through business cannot see it, but the old fried dough sticks who have been struggling in the shopping mall for many years can see it at a glance.

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On a very ordinary morning, in the city of Bianliang, the Bian River, which was usually not paid attention to, was filled with the gaps between the two sides by tens of thousands of people.

But among these people, no one knew what other people were doing here, and only knew that it was said that a novel thing appeared on the Bian River.

Then, it attracted the masses here and surrounded the two sides of the Taiwan Straits.

"Here, come, is that thing?" A man with good eyes suddenly saw a strange thing driving from the river in the distance.

Hearing his yell, everyone looked upstream of the river: "Where? Where?"

I only saw a ship slowly coming, which disappointed many people: "It's just a ship, cut~~~."

Just as someone was about to leave, another person suddenly started to shout: "Look, everyone, that is not an ordinary boat. The boat has no sails or oars, only a huge chimney and two water trucks."

The foot of the person who was about to leave was pulled back by the shout before it landed. They turned around and saw that it was indeed as the man said. The ship had no sails, no oars, only a large smoke-burning chimney and two waterwheels rolling.

The person standing on the boat was Zhao Weiji, who had just ascended the throne. He was standing at the bow of the boat, waving to the people watching on both sides of the strait, which scared the people immediately wanted to kneel down.

But before they could kneel down, the boat drove away.

These ships are the inland shipping versions of the Black Pearl. Zhao Weiji, who was determined to vigorously develop business, not only gave preferential policies, but also thought of one thing that came to mind was to develop transportation.

Based on the principle of building roads first if you want to be rich, Zhao Weiji placed the transformation of transportation methods first after he ascended the throne. After all, this skill promotes the development of business and the strength of the country, and will not conflict with the vested interests of those old people for the time being.

But it is worth studying where to transform the transportation method.

First of all, the Chi Dao of the Song Dynasty was relatively complete, and Zhao Weiji did not need to build the Chi Dao, but at most it was just to maintain it.

Moreover, Zhao Weiji has not yet been able to produce a car, and he has not even fully developed an internal combustion engine.

Since these two things are not possible, then the train can always be? Zhao Weiji, who had developed the true Qi engine in Xinhua City for a long time, certainly thought about the feasibility of the train, but if you use the train, you must assume a lot of railways. This is a super project. The Song Dynasty, which has experienced the war, does not have the financial resources for the time being. It may be possible to do it if you give Zhao Weiji five years.

Since the train is no longer possible, only Heyun can make a decision. Here Zhao Weiji silently prayed to Emperor Yang of Sui for his great canal that he sacrificed himself to leave for his descendants.

With the Grand Canal that connects the north and south as the basis, Zhao Weiji does not need to open a new river channel at all, but only needs to improve it on the transportation tools.

This saved him a lot of trouble. The improvement of transportation tools was too simple. I would just move the technology used on the Black Pearl to a small boat in the inland river.

After removing the muzzle left for the cannon, Zhao Weiji didn't even need a sail, just loaded two water wheels. The ship was twice as fast as the original ship after testing, and was not affected by the wind direction, and performed very well when countercurrent.

The only thing that is to use coal is fortunately, the coal reserves in the Song Dynasty were still very rich at this time, which was sufficient for shipping consumption.

Just after the ship that Zhao Weiji was riding on the Bian River before was successfully sailed, countless old friends began to appear in front of Zhao Weiji again.

These people were the bosses of the Chamber of Commerce. Before Zhao Weiji ordered the construction of this ship, he asked someone to bring information to these bosses.

When these bosses saw that the new ship was so fast and had a huge load capacity, they naturally wanted it very much, because there were about three or four such ships, which could form a very strong transport fleet, which was very beneficial for them to transport goods across the country.

The reappearance of these old friends naturally made Zhao Weiji very happy. These people have made a lot of money in the past two years, and the Song Dynasty treasury, which had just finished the war, was very empty. The important task of filling the treasury was naturally accomplished by these fat sheep.

So Zhao Weiji waved his pen and provided these fat sheep with five times the cost price, and had to pay 30% before starting construction.

"Master, will this price be too high?" The officials of the Ministry of Works, who are mainly responsible for ship construction, are a little confused.

"It's okay, they will accept it. Also, tell them that we don't bargain here." Zhao Weiji is not afraid of those old foxes not buying it. Only he has this kind of technology now, and it is a monopoly.

As long as one buys one and the other does not buy it, it will be very shocked soon, and others will not be able to pay the money obediently.

Now Zhao Weiji is reluctant to buy it. Only a few families buy it first, and others continue to wait and see, so that there will be room for price increases in the future.

Just when Zhao Weiji was still thinking about how to cheat the old foxes in the business world, Zhang Zhibai suddenly came over: "Your Majesty, several ministers jointly submitted such a memorial."

"You can't finish reading the memorial. Didn't you say that you will submit it to me after you come up with your specific opinions?"

"No, this memorial is a bit special."
Chapter completed!