The Three Kingdoms

One question after another, countless troubles, overwhelming, even he was somewhat exhausted.

Breaking the old system and reforming the new system will involve a lot.

"Your Majesty!" Cao Yang came in, cupped his hands and said, "Zhou Shangshu and Gu Shangshu are asking for an audience outside the palace gate, can you invite them in?"

"Let them come in!" Sun Quan raised his head and said calmly.

"promise!"

Not long after, Cao Yang led Zhou Yu and Gu Yong in.

"My minister Zhou Yu (Gu Yong) pays homage to the king!" Standing in front of the desk, the two respectfully saluted Sun Quan.

"No need to be polite!"

Sun Quan stood up, walked out, and walked into the small living room where he received guests. He poured himself a cup of tea, then poured a cup of tea for the two of them, and said, "You don't look very well, sit down first. , have a sip of tea, and talk about other things!"

"promise!"

The two sat down on Sun Quan's left and right sides.

"A lot of trouble?"

Sun Quan asked tentatively.

The two of them nodded quickly when they heard the words, and their faces showed a bit of bitterness one after another. Zhou Yu took the lead in complaining: "I still underestimated the opposition of the older generation to the reform. My uncle has been moved out. Now this is a bit There are no people inside and out!"

"Isn't Zhou Shang at home for the elderly?"

Hearing this, Sun Quan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"But he's well-informed. Someone probably bothered him and asked him to come to Jinling from Lujiang in person, and he got scolded all over the place!" Zhou Yu sighed.

"interesting!"

The corners of Sun Quan's mouth curled into a slight arc, which sounds a bit like the handwriting of his uncle Wu Jing.

Both Wu Jing and Sun Jing opposed the reform.

These two, one is the current Uncle Wang, and the other is the current Uncle Guo, both are court tycoons, and as the backbone of their relatives and clan, their influence is not weak.

"Yuan Tan, how is your current environment?" Sun Quan thought for a while, looked at Gu Yong and asked, "The Gu family is not having a good time recently!"

"The Jiangdong family is about to rebel!"

Gu Yong lowered his head, and there was a helpless light in his eyes.

The Gu family and the Lu family chose to obey the reform, but more than [-]% of the Jiangdong family chose to oppose the reform, and they naturally went to the opposite side. Perhaps this is what Sun Quan wanted to see.

He found more and more that Sun Quan's methods were so sophisticated that they couldn't resist.

The position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials directly caused the strong alliance of the Jiangdong family to collapse. Even if he knew it was a bait, he could only swallow it.

"It's the other way around!"

Sun Quan heard the words, his face was calm, and he said lightly: "If you can't break it, you can't build it. Maybe this is also an opportunity. Sometimes don't be too persistent in the past, you will see a lot of things!"

"I understand!" Gu Yong's eyes lit up slightly upon hearing this.

What Sun Quan meant was that the glory of the Jiangdong family had shone on them for too long, and instead they had become a shackle. It might not be a bad thing to take off this shackle.

"Let's talk about the next move. The affairs of the court are suppressed by the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Officials. Other things can be adjusted. Prime Minister Zhang has already started to form a cabinet. As long as the cabinet is successfully established, the court can transition smoothly. The new system, next, we should move to the local government!"

Sun Quan stood up, took out a dossier from the desk, handed it to the two of them, and said, "This is the previous plan that Gu has perfected in the past few days. You have all seen it!"

"Your Majesty wants to depose the state and directly change it to a county government?"

The two looked at the file carefully. (To be continued.)

[Chapter 648 of the main text: The Six Books of the Great Wu Reform]

Royal study.

Zhou Yu and Gu Yong looked a little surprised, Sun Quan really thought about what to do, now things in the court have not been straightened out, and they are here so soon.

"It's not in a hurry, but to strike while the iron is hot!" Sun Quan looked at the expressions of the two, and naturally knew what they were thinking.

"Your Majesty is worried about the long night and the many dreams!" Gu Yong's eyes moved slightly.

"No, it's just that the local establishments in various parts of Dawu are a bit messy now, and the six counties in Jiangdong can barely sort out a clue, but northern Xinjiang, Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, and Guangzhou are not very ideal!"

Sun Quan sat up straight and explained softly, saying: "From Gu's point of view, Wu's rule is obviously not a state, and a county is not a county. If this is the case, it will bring great difficulties to our rule. Since we The reform has already started, and there will be people who will oppose it anyway, why don't we take a bigger step!"

He wanted to abandon the state system in use today.

This is very detrimental to the centralization of power. Even though the state of Wu has begun to initially divide the system of civil and military rule, judging from the current environment, when the world is in trouble, the governor of a state still has too much power , and even threaten the ruling power of the central government at any time.

Now that the law has been reformed, take advantage of this trend to directly reform to the end, dismiss the governor's office of a state, and directly fall into the county government system.

"My lord, it is not impossible to recall the state system!"

Holding the dossier in both hands, Zhou Yu read it very carefully, and then said in a low voice after a while: "Before the Han Dynasty established the thirteen states, the county ruled the world, but if this happens, we will go to war. If this is the case, the entire Great Wu Every reform will increase the pressure!"

"Isn't it time to go to war?"

Sun Quan smiled lightly, and asked back: "Is there no pressure now?"

"It is!"

Zhou Yu was taken aback for a moment when he heard the words, and after a while he came back to his senses, and then smiled wryly.

indeed.The current reform has alarmed the entire Wu country, and it has already been a great effort. If you are too worried, you will be a little bit tied.

"Your Majesty, you have taken a big step. You have ruled the country of Wu with a prefecture system, setting up prefects and magistrates, Jiaozhou retains Nanhai County, Cangwu Hepu merges into Cangwu Mansion, and Jiaozhi Yulin merges into Jiaozhi County. Nanjiuzhen merged into Zhennan Prefecture, two counties, two prefectures, and Jingzhou..."

Gu Yong looked at the little details on the dossier, squinted slightly, his face was serious, and he was a little worried.

"What do you want to say?"

Sun Quan asked calmly.

"Your Majesty, what Yuan Tan means is that the original system has been deeply rooted for many years, and once it is activated, it will cause chaos in various places!" Zhou Yu added directly.

"It can't be messed up. Wu's foundation is in Jiangdong. As long as the foundation of Jiangdong's six counties remains unchanged, it will not affect our reform of Wu!"

Sun Quan looked indifferent, and said decisively: "Although you are more or less doubtful about whether such reforms in the local area are necessary, I can tell you that reforms are necessary. Great Wu ruled the world by people, not by the land. Mergers still need to be merged to improve management efficiency!"

In northern Xinjiang and Jiaozhou, the population in many places is not large, although the area is large.But with such a small number of people, it is a waste of human resources to set up a county.