For thousands of years, all over the world have developed into monarchy, which is enough to show that monarchy was the best choice for people at that time.

When humans have a narrow vision and are not able to break through rivers, forests and deserts, they can only gather together in the form of tribes. Since the population of tribes is not large, tribe leaders can be generated by the electoral system. In this form, the power of tribe leaders obviously comes from the authorization of each tribe.

However, when humans broke through forests, rivers, and deserts, wars began to break out between tribes, and the population of dominant populations expanded sharply. The people a person contacted may not even be less than one percent of the population within the tribe. It is obviously unlikely that they would try to select the recognized leader through the old methods.

Perhaps, there have been large tribes in this world that have elected leaders, but such tribes are too involved and are difficult to effectively resist the threats of other tribes. For example, the city-states of the ancient Greek era were destroyed in the hands of Alexander and his father.

Modern people always admire the city-states of the ancient Greek era and believe that it was the source of the Western democratic system. They also said that the reason why China was backward is because it did not have the source like the ancient Greek city-states.

This is a bullshit. The so-called ancient Greek city-state democracy is far from modern society, but it is just far-fetched by some scholars. This is like the literary and artistic innovation that emerged first in Venice and Florence. It is clearly completely different from the literature and art of the ancient Roman era, but it is called the Renaissance.

Judging from the times, the city-state system of ancient Greece was not enough to protect the ancient Greek population to reproduce and survive, and sooner or later it would perish.

In this era, a monarch will inevitably be born. After the monarch appears, he must try every means to make people take it for granted to be a monarch. It just so happened that people at that time respected the imagined God, so all the monarchs declared that the monarch's power is the basis for the establishment of all monarchs!

However, China at this time was slightly different from the world.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty certainly advocated the divine right of the king, for example, when a mountain collapsed and an earthquake occurred, it was regarded as a warning from God to the emperor. The emperor needed to issue a self-criticism to criticize himself. However, since the Sui and Tang dynasties, except for the Yuan Dynasty, all courts have used the imperial examination system to select officials, blurring the boundaries between the upper and lower classes. The power of scholars has expanded rapidly, and also appeared in the whole society as a whole, desperately advocating that "the people are the most important, the country is the next, and the king is the least" to gain greater power for his own class. At this time, simply advocating the divine right of the king is no longer enough to explain the rationality of the existence of the court. The emperor must listen to the scholars in order to rule the country.

Therefore, it was reasonable for Zhu Yuanzhang to move Mencius out of the Confucius Temple and he hated Wang Anshi, who advocated Mencius.

However, the trend of historical development was not varied by Zhu Yuanzhang's will. After the scholars were dormant, they fought back even more fiercely. Since Jiajing, the emperor has no more autonomy.

The emperor and scholars share the world together, this sentence is the best portrayal of reality.

Lin Chunhong has always seen this reality very thoroughly. When he was not strong, he relied on the scholar class to cultivate a new class. At that time, he defected to the Donglin Party and colluded with Wen Tiren, which are all true portrayals of his lack of strength.

Now, the new class is getting stronger and stronger. Lin Chunhong finally shouted the saying "Officials and gentry are all paid together" without having to beat around the bush, focusing on weakening the economic foundation of the gentry and attacking the foundation of the literati class.

However, the new class is still in a very naive stage, and the power of the literati is still very strong, and the boundaries between the new class and the literati are already relatively blurred. For example, the large number of Donglin Party and Fushe obviously belong to the literati class. For example, people like Wang Dajun and Li Duoyi seem to belong to the new class, but there are several Jinshi and Juren in their family. Which category does it belong to?

Taking advantage of the situation, one of the successful experiences over the years is obviously not to be abandoned.

Establishing a system of censors can be attributed to the integration of the Ming Dynasty court, or the integration of the literati and officials.

In essence, integrating literati and official dynasties is a part of integrating the Ming Dynasty.

This is Lin Chunhong’s most important matter at present. How can he be disturbed by internal struggles in Jingzhou?

On the second day, Lin Chunhong called Zhang Daohan, Li Chongde, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu to Xinggong Tower and ordered the Zhongshu Mansion, the Supervision Mansion and Huang Gu to each plan to establish a censor system.

Lin Chunhong stipulated that the plan must focus on solving several problems: where the censors come from and how they are produced; how the censors are structured; the requirements for the censors’ proposals; and how the censors manage them.

At the same time, Lin Chunhong also specifically told Huang Gu and the others, saying, "If you feel that the manpower is insufficient, you can summon old friends to Jingzhou for help."

This sentence is tantamount to telling Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu that with the introduction of the censor system, Jingzhou will not work behind closed doors. Jingzhou welcomes all members of the Ming Dynasty to participate in the design and formulate plans.

Huang Gu and the other two were overjoyed and couldn't help but praise: "The mind of Jiangling Marquis is hard to reach in the world!"

However, in Zhang Daohan and Li Chongde's ears, they immediately complained secretly. Lin Chunhong's approach has spread the scope of the fight across the country. No matter how hard the Supervisory Office and the Central Secretariat Office fought, they could not dominate the presidency of the censors according to their own wishes.

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty court will inevitably get involved in this kind of struggle, and no one can tell what variables will eventually occur.

Let’s talk about Chen Tianyao’s heart that he had been entangled in his heart, “If the Ming Dynasty had no emperor, would you mind”, he was restless and lost his former spirituality, and he was quite haggard.

Chen Tianyao couldn't understand what "monarch's power is granted" later. Out of intuition, she thought Lin Chunhong would make a decision on the emperor.

Since ancient times, the crime of treason has often been linked to the death of thousands of knives and the destruction of nine clans, which has made Chen Tianyao feel frightened.

Zhou Feng was meticulous and saw that Chen Tianyao was unsteady, secretly pulled Chen Tianyao aside, reminding him: "The old lady is smart. When you see you are restless, you will suspect that you are involved. At that time, it will be too late to say anything!"

Chen Tianyao urgently argued: "I'm not involved! Sister Zhou can't believe me?"

Zhou Feng said: "It's not that you can't believe you, it's that your expression is too abnormal. What does it have to do with us when setting up a censor? Don't think too much, men are monsters, we can't understand."

Chen Tianyao lowered her head, was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Sister Feng, if there is no emperor in the Ming Dynasty, do you mind?"

Zhou Feng was shocked and then said angrily: "How can you say such messy words? You will kill the third brother!"

Chen Tianyao said: "It was the third brother who asked me."

Zhou Feng felt a mess in his heart and didn't know what to say. In the end, he had to warn Chen Tianyao: "Don't mention this to anyone in the future, otherwise, it will really kill the third brother! Do you understand?"

Chen Tianyao nodded and said, "I understand, I won't tell her sister Cui."

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Chen Tianyao took the truth out of context, making Zhou Feng think that Lin Chunhong intends to overthrow the Ming court, and there is another person who is absent-minded: Zhou Feng.

Of course, Zhou Feng knew what Lin Chunhong was doing now, and involuntarily linked the abolition of the emperor with the system of censors.

Taking advantage of being alone with Lin Chunhong, Zhou Feng asked directly: "What does the censor system have to do with the integration of the court?"

Zhou Feng did not dare to directly raise the issue of the emperor's abolition, so he went around and replaced the emperor with the current popular word of fusion court in Jingzhou's political arena.

Lin Chunhong was surprised that Chen Tianyao and Zhou Feng had talked about the emperor and looked at Zhou Feng with admiration. In Lin Chunhong's mind, Zhou Feng was the first to see that the establishment of the censor system had the purpose of integrating the court.

Lin Chunhong has always criticized the so-called foreign relatives' interference in politics, and does not mind that the inner husband has a certain political mind. Besides, he also wanted to take advantage of the discussion with Zhou Feng and sort out his ideas.

Therefore, he explained in detail: "I plan to set up a Guanglu Court in addition to the Zhongshu Mansion, Supervision Office and Governor's Mansion, which will specifically exercise the power of consultants and make suggestions for administrative and supervisory decisions."

"The left and right are just consultants, what power can they have?"

Lin Chunhong said: "Guangluyuan is independent. After any organization is established, it has the desire to expand the power of the organization. Think about it, what if one day, Guangluyuan proposes a proposal to say that his father-in-law is corrupt and the evidence is conclusive, and it is recommended to severely punish the Security Department and the Supervision Office or ignore it?"

Zhou Feng said angrily: "Why use my father as an example? Do you want to anger me?"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "The left and right are just examples. Why are you anxious? Look, your mouth is so angry that it's not good-looking! OK, let's change another example, for example, the Guanglu Court proposal that Chen Lizi is corruption, the Security Department, and the Supervision Office handles or ignores it?"

After changing the example, it fell on the third lady's head, which made Zhou Feng understand Lin Chunhong's intention of teasing. She stared at her eyes and hummed: "Deal!"

Zhou Feng continued: "So, Guanglu Court has the right to supervise. However, it is strange that only the right to supervise and no investigation is possible to detect corruption!"

Lin Chunhong said: "One of the opening is here first. What step can Guangluyuan do depends on their ability!"

Zhou Feng thought for a while and said, "Yes, it is indeed not a good thing to set up a new institution and suddenly have great power. However, what is the connection between this and the emperor's existence and destruction?"

Zhou Feng inadvertently raised her most tangled question, which surprised Lin Chunhong and asked: "Why is this related to the emperor's abolition? When did I say that the emperor was abolished?"

Seeing Lin Chunhong's surprise, Zhou Feng was not as surprised as if he was fake. The stone that had been hanging for a few days finally fell to the ground. He pretended to be careless and said: "Integrate the court, you will not be the one who will be the ruler of the court at that time, and the emperor's destruction will not be the matter of your words?"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "If you want to be the queen and are happy to fight with Cui Yu and Tianyao and other concubines, I can consider it."

Zhou Feng snorted and said, "You will be killed by you to the cold palace by then! You said, what is the relationship between the censor and the fusion court?"

Lin Chunhong said: "Those who have fame and fortune in the world can become censors in Guanglu Academy as long as they pass the assessment!"

Zhou Feng suddenly understood, why was the establishment of censors just to integrate into the court? I am afraid that the most important ending point is to introduce an opposition force and stare at the big guys in Jingzhou every day!
Chapter completed!