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Liu Zhi mustered up the courage and said, "My second mother just said fiercely. She was actually very soft-hearted. And she forgot that she said she would not teach me how to practice martial arts. She insisted on forcing me to sword at her and pulled me up before dawn in the morning."

Speaking of the latter, Liu Zhi had a hint of complaint. Liu Jing laughed and said to his son earnestly: "Your second mother hopes that you will not become a nerd. She is for your own good. Let you get up early to hone your will. Daddy was in the fourth update and had to get up at the fourth update. He has been persisting for eight years. It is still not dawn now. Only those with strong will can do great things in the future. You should thank Er mother for her."

Liu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and no one had told him these reasons. Only then did he understand Er Niang's good intentions, and he couldn't help but lower his head in shame, "The boy understands it."

Liu Jing patted his tender shoulders, "In the future, Master will teach you these principles slowly and write well."

"yes"

Liu Zhi was doing his job well again and began to write seriously. At this time, Liu Jing suddenly saw a small head protruding into the room. It was his precious daughter Liu Zhu, who was only a year old this year and was quite naughty. Generally, fathers love their daughters, and Liu Jing loved them especially.

He walked up with a smile, picked up his daughter, gently pinched her pink face, and asked with a smile: "What is the piglet doing?"

Like her mother, Liu Zhu has a round face, big eyes, well-behaved and smart. She blinked and smiled and said, "I'm looking at whether my dad is teaching my brother a lesson."

"What if my dad was teaching my brother a lesson?" Liu Jing asked again with a smile.

"I'll help my dad fight together"

Liu Jing laughed loudly, he kissed his daughter's face, "Brother gives you all the fruits, you'll beat him."

Liu Zhu made a face but stopped answering. Liu Jing turned around and saw that he was like an old monk entering into meditation, unmoved, so he nodded and smiled, "Brother is practicing calligraphy, I will accompany Zhuer to the yard to play."

Liu Zhu clapped her hands happily, "I want my father to help me pick the fruit."

"Good daddy helps you pick it."

Liu Jing walked to the yard with his daughter in his arms. Liu Zhu pointed at the yellowed apricot tree and said anxiously: "I want that."

Liu Jing reached out to pull down the branch, Liu Zhu stretched out her hand to grab two apricots, and her face was full of blooming. At this time, Sun Shangxiang walked into the courtyard and smiled at Liu Jing, "I just met Grandma Wu and said that Xu Changshi was here and was waiting for his husband in the study outside. Why don't you go and see him?"

Liu Jing knew that Xu Shu must be doing something about Jiangdong, so he nodded and handed her daughter to her, "Little Pig, let second mother play with you, daddy has something to do."

Liu Zhu pouted and looked unhappy. She came to look for her father with a eager look, but her father only stayed with her for a while. Liu Jing loved her daughter and squeezed her little face and smiled, "Dad will accompany you to draw tonight."

Liu Zhu suddenly became happy, "Dad lied to me as a puppy."

Liu Jing hooked her little fingers, smiled at Sun Shangxiang again, turned around, walked out of the yard and heard Sun Shangxiang tease her, "Little Pig, give Erniang one apricot in her hand."

"No, this is given to me by Dad."

Liu Jing smiled and shook his head, and walked forward quickly.

Walking into the study outside, Xu Shu and Dong He were sitting in the room and talking. When they saw Liu Jing coming in, they quickly stood up and bowed and said, "I'm going to see the governor of the state."

At the end of last year, the General's Office carried out a major power reform and officially implemented the multi-phase system. However, since Liu Jing had not yet established a country, he could not be called a prime minister, so he established the position of Minister of Political Affairs, referred to as the Minister of Political Science, and was granted this position, which means he obtained the power of the Prime Minister.

Currently, Xu Shu, Jiang Wan, Fei Guan, Dong He and Sima Yi are the Minister of Political Affairs, and jointly discuss major military and political affairs. They are also appointed as the Minister of State. The Minister of State is responsible for handling daily government affairs and in charge of political affairs. Five people take turns to serve as the Minister of State, each of whom is in charge of political affairs for one month. For this reason, the Hall of State is renamed Pingzhang Platform, which means consultation. In this way, the multi-phase system advocated by Liu Jing was formed.

However, in order to restrict the abuse of power by the Secretary of the Shangshu, the position of Shizhong was established, and Yin Jing was appointed. If there is any major inappropriate government decisions of the Shangshu or Shangshu Ling, it will be rejected by the Shizhong and returned to the Shangshu on Pingzhangtai for renegotiation. The Shizhong has several Shizhong as the assistants of the Shizhong.

If the Secretary of the Shang Dynasty and the Shizhong cannot reach an agreement on the opinions, then Liu Jing will make the final decision.

In addition, the Shizhong also has an important power, the right to distinguish government affairs, which government affairs can be decided by the Shangshu Ling himself, which government affairs must be negotiated and resolved by the Five Shangshus, and which government affairs must be handed over to Liu Jing for approval. In this way, Liu Jing can be freed from the heavy daily government affairs and concentrate on considering military and national affairs.

The biggest loss to such a major change of power was Xu Shu. In fact, Xu Shu's power to the chief minister was divided into five parts. Originally, Xu Shu was in charge of government affairs alone, but now he has become five people who hold power together.

Although his own power has suffered a lot, Xu Shu was a firm promoter of this kind of multi-ethnic system, because Xu Shu was not considering his own gains and losses, but considering the checks and balances between the prime minister's power and the monarch's power. The Han Dynasty's unilateral system easily allowed the prime minister to monopolize the power and easily caused the emperor to suspicion of the prime minister, so the prime minister's power was not very strong.

Once a multi-phase system is implemented, the prime ministers can check and balance each other, and the threat to the emperor will be greatly reduced, so the emperor will easily delegate power.

Xu Shu knew that once this multi-phase system was formed, it would have a profound impact on the power structure in the coming years. From the perspective of the separation of power between the king and the prime minister, Xu Shu strongly supported this reform.

It was also coincidental that this month, Xu Shu was appointed as the Minister of State and was in charge of political affairs. He was responsible for some of the daily trivial government affairs.

Liu Jing ordered the maid to serve tea, and asked Xu Shu and Dong He again, "How do you feel when the polyphasic system has been operating for five months?"

Xu Shu bowed and said, "At the beginning, there were some unsuitable things, and there were some inadequate considerations, but over time, it would naturally fit slowly, so we were not worried. Overall, it was still very good and it was running smoothly."

Liu Jing nodded, "Because my energy is mainly about the Northern Expedition and Eastern Expedition, I basically don't ask about government affairs, but once it stabilizes in the future, I may also participate in government affairs."

Dong He smiled and said, "Of course, please rest assured. We will not take the opportunity to seize the power of the provincial governor."

The people laughed together, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became relaxed. At this time, Liu Jing asked again: "Is it a decision about the matter of recruiting another 100,000 troops?"

This was the first thing Liu Jing had to do after the end of the Jingzhou War. The lack of troops made him very passive in the confrontation with Cao Cao, and he had to suspend the Northern Expedition plan. Therefore, it was very urgent to recruit another 100,000 troops to make the total force reach 100,000.

Dong He was responsible for recruiting troops. He was in charge of military affairs and lieutenant Cao, and his power was equivalent to that of the later Minister of War. Dong He quickly replied: "Report to the provincial governor, the plan has been formulated. It can be implemented after the Pingzhang platform negotiates and then reported to the provincial governor for approval."

"Simply talk about it." Liu Jing said with a smile.

"Simply put, Yizhou recruits 50,000 troops, Jingzhou recruits 10,000 troops, and Hanzhong recruits 20,000 troops. Among them, Yizhou's 50,000 troops include 20,000 Yi barbarian soldiers in southern Yizhou. We have reached an agreement with the Barbarian King and the Yi King."

Liu Jing nodded and asked Xu Shu again, "How was the talk about the alliance between Jiangdong?"

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The alliance between the Sun and Liu families was not going well, and it can be said that it was a deadlock. The key was the ownership of Qichun County. Sun Quan's attitude was very clear. If the alliance was to abolish the unequal agreement signed before, then Qichun County should be returned to Jiangdong. However, after discussion, the Secretary of the General's Office unanimously rejected Jiangdong's request.

The reason is simple. Alliance is a future matter. Qichun County’s accession to Jingzhou was the result of the last Jiangdong Army’s western expedition. The fact that Jiangdong Army’s western expedition cannot be erased because of the current alliance. Of course, as the sincerity of Jingzhou, Pengze Lake, Pengze County and the Yangtze River waterway east of Qichun County can be returned to Jiangdong, that’s all.

The attitude of the General's Mansion made Lu Fan feel deeply depressed, because when he set out, Wu Hou reminded him again that he must take Qichun County back, otherwise he would rather not form an alliance. Although Lu Fan also understood that Ju Chun County poses great threat to Jiangxia, the General's Mansion would definitely not agree, but Wu Hou's attitude was clearly there, which made him feel embarrassed and had no choice.

Lu Fan lives in the Guibin Inn in Chengdu. The elegant environment and meticulous service made him feel very comfortable. However, the tough attitude of the General's Mansion made him feel depressed and he had no intention of enjoying the beautiful scenery in the inn, and he didn't even have the heart to visit Princess Shangxiang.

At noon, a ox cart slowly stopped in front of the VIP Inn. A middle-aged man led two friends to take more than a dozen food boxes out of the ox cart. At this time, the chief of the museum walked out. He looked at the people and asked, "Who are you, what are you doing here?"

The middle-aged man bowed and said, "We are from the Jiangnan Tavern. The Jiangdong guests in the inn ordered wine and food from the tavern, and we specially sent it."

The chief of the library was a little stunned. He had never heard of the guests from the Guibin Office ordering food outside. At this time, the deputy envoy of Jiangdong, Zhang Cheng, came out. Zhang Cheng was Zhang Zhaochang, over ten years old, and currently joins the army of the Jiangdong Governor's Office. He was very smart and capable. This time he was appointed as the deputy envoy of Lu Fan to Chengdu by Sun Quan.

Because the negotiations were deadlocked, Zhang Cheng was also quite depressed and wanted to go out for a walk. When he walked out of the door, he happened to see the ox cart. He was slightly stunned. At this time, the middle-aged man who was delivering wine and food hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhang, the villain is the shopkeeper of the Jiangnan Tavern, so I'm here to deliver wine and food."

Zhang Cheng only felt that the middle-aged man looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him. He pondered for a moment, but did not answer. The middle-aged man blinked at him and said, "Did you forget that you came to the Bian Store yesterday, Jiangnan Tavern."
Chapter completed!