In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 351 Formation of the Senate

The Great Court Meeting ended without any resolution, and the news quickly spread throughout the court and outside. Everyone was waiting to guess how the emperor would deal with Shi Kefa, and then analyze and judge the future political tendency of Great China.

They didn't keep everyone waiting, but the emperor's letter came to the court the next day. The head of the court, Shi Kefa, blatantly violated the rules of the court and made inappropriate remarks. He was dismissed and investigated in accordance with Article [-] of the Administrative Law.

Twenty-three people including Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, and Gao Hongtu had rigid ideas and lacked political awareness. They were not suitable to stay in the court any longer. They were all transferred to the newly formed Political Council.

At this time, Lin Rui finally understood why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty liked to use villains and could tolerate hypocrites, but he could not tolerate true gentlemen.

Even he, a time traveler, could not tolerate people like Shi Kefa continuing to exist in the court.

At the same time, Lin Rui also officially issued an edict to establish the Senate.

The Senate has a main chamber and each province has a branch chamber. Each Senate has [-] members, and they only have a monthly salary.

The Senate currently only has two powers. The first is to impeach officials from the Government Affairs Council, courts and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but only for corruption, bribery and misconduct.

All impeached officials will be investigated by the Supervisory Bureau, and the Senate can send people to supervise the entire investigation.

The second is that you can submit letters of recommendation to the emperor, but this is limited to military and national affairs and does not involve royal private matters. Each member of the parliament can submit a letter alone once a year, or you can choose to submit a letter jointly with others.

All members of the General Council are temporarily appointed by the emperor, and provincial members are jointly elected by scholars from each province. This is something that cannot be helped. It is simply unrealistic to want universal elections now, so members do not have judicial immunity for the time being. Lin Rui plans to do so in the future Then slowly improve it.

If it weren't for the purpose of settling the Donglin Party members, under the current situation, he would not be in a hurry to get the Senate out.

But if we don't do it now and completely defeat the Donglin Party, scholars all over the world will definitely unite under Hong Chengchou's traitorous party. It will be difficult to form another party in the future to compete with the traitorous party.

After all, the slogans of the Donglin Party are still very powerful, and everyone pretends to be a moral gentleman on the surface.

As a person who traveled from a previous life, Lin Rui naturally knows the value of hypocrites, because there are actually only a handful of truly moral gentlemen in a society.

Most of them are hypocrites, but no matter what others think in their hearts, as long as they openly despise shameless villains and pretend to be benevolent, righteous, rational, and trustworthy gentlemen in every word and deed, it will be enough.

And if a society stops pretending to be hypocrites and is too lazy to pretend, it will completely degenerate into male thieves and female prostitutes.

It is precisely because of this that Lin Rui has always tolerated the existence of the Donglin Party.

As the two imperial edicts were issued, all officials breathed a heavy sigh of relief, even Hong Chengchou and the senior officials of the Government Affairs Council were no exception.

After all, if the emperor really goes on a killing spree and uproots the Donglin Party, then they may not be happy, but everyone will be terrified when they sleep at night.

Although the Donglin Party was eliminated from the court, His Majesty finally created a political Senate. Although it has no real power, it can impeach the other three chambers openly. It is not a complete loss.

However, after this incident, the Donglin Party members became much more honest and chose to follow the rules set by His Majesty and did not dare to do the same things as before.

Because they all know that it is useless to do that in front of the current emperor, it will only be counterproductive. The example of Shi Kefa is there, even if he wants to die or gain fame.

Most of the Donglin Party members are just for fame and fortune. It is absolutely impossible for them to risk everything like Shi Kefa and just seek a good name to become a saint.

In the end, Lin Rui chose Zhang Han, the scholar who first surrendered to him, to serve as the head of the court.

"My dear friends, currently the criminal law, civil law, commercial law, criminal procedure law, administrative law and other relevant laws and regulations have been initially formulated. It is time to truly implement decentralization of powers. I plan to select a province for pilot testing first. After missing the addendum, it will be implemented nationwide. Are there any problems with Sun Aiqing, Zhang Aiqing, the court and the Metropolitan Procuratorate?" In the imperial study room, Lin Rui looked at Hong Chengchou, Zhang Han and Sun Chuanting and said slowly, originally this matter was What was to be announced at the end of the meeting was disrupted by Shi Kefa.

Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting had also known about this for a long time, so this time they mainly communicated with Zhang Han.

"Your Majesty, I wonder how many judges each county needs to send?"

Zhang Han also knew about this, but he didn't know it, so he asked aloud. As for whether those laws were mainly compiled by the court, he didn't ask.

Because the court's compilation has not yet been completed, I know without asking that it must have been compiled by His Majesty himself.

"Each county must have one, two and three judges, plus three to four intern judges. Each province has a high court and a procuratorate, each state capital has an intermediate court, and each county has a low court. They must Build a separate government office.

The central courts and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are at the final level, and the pilot province is Jiangdong. In February next year, the courts and the Metropolitan Procuratorate in various places must be opened and officially operational. "

Lin Rui explained slowly.

Zhang Han immediately made a calculation in his mind. There are only three to four hundred officials in the court who are really proficient in the law. Three people need to be sent to each county. According to the scale of Jiangdong Province, I am afraid these people will have to be sent out. The one thousand from the law school will be sent out. It is estimated that many students will also have to go on internships.

Thinking of this, he also understood that His Majesty's questioning of him was just a formality. The court must know more about the situation than he did.

Next, Lin Rui discussed the specific details with the three of them, and then the three of them resigned and left.

After the three people left, Lin Rui summoned Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Zheng Zhilong.

"Zheng Aiqing, the three fleets have been working together for nearly four months. Are they confident of defeating the navy of North Korea and Japan?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the morale of our naval officers is high at present, and the nearby sea areas are all familiar. They are ready to go to war at any time. We will definitely destroy the Japanese navy of Korea in one battle to repay Your Majesty's grace!"

Zheng Zhilong replied quickly, his voice was so nervous that he was trembling. The last time he went to Beijing to visit Lin Rui, he went back to Tianjin to train in the Navy, so this was the second time he met with you, so he was still a little embarrassed and couldn't let go.

"This naval battle is very important, and there is no room for error. What I want is the truth. Can you tell me clearly what is the chance of winning?"

Lin Rui frowned, obviously dissatisfied with his remarks.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me. With the current strength of our three fleets, I am [-]% sure of defeating the North Korean Navy by surprise. If we deal with the North Korean and Japanese Navy at the same time, the outcome will be between [-] and [-]."

Zheng Zhilong obviously didn't expect the emperor to be so direct, so he could only grit his teeth and answer truthfully.

"Okay, Aiqing will be solely responsible for the naval battle. I have only one condition, and that is that before April next year, there must be no warships from other countries in the waters from Shandong to North Korea."

Lin Rui didn't hesitate and said directly. Now one hundred thousand new troops have been recruited and gathered in the capital. In half a year, they will be almost ready for training. The new firecrackers and artillery will also be completed. By then, as long as the sea threats are resolved, You can log in directly to fight at any time.

"It's Your Majesty!"

Although Zheng Zhilong has lost his previous ambition, but with a heavy burden on him, he can only bite the bullet and answer.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng on the side looked envious, but they knew nothing about naval battles.

(End of this chapter)