through wealth and glory

After taking office, Chen Minjie chose Xidu City as his first stop, and today he specially came to visit him, Li Leyue knew his intention very well.

Now the top officials of the empire, especially the reformists headed by Emperor Li Fengcheng's left minister Xu Xianmin, believe that the current local officials of the empire are inextricably linked with the local consortium and business circles, which is very detrimental to the sustainable development of the empire.

At present, the Ministry of Officials of the Empire is planning to replace the high-level officials of the states in the Empire, so as to break the collusion between officials and businessmen in various places and support the development of the family industry.

At present, the southwestern part of the empire has already woven a complex network of interests because the government of other countries has stood there for hundreds of years. When it comes to the local protection forces of the empire, it is definitely headed by the government of Anguo. Move the knife to knock the mountains and shake the tigers and break the current situation in the Southwest.

Li Leyue knew when Hu Weize, the governor of Chenzhou, came to take office that the central government of the empire was going to take action against the political situation in the Southwest.

After Li Fengyu was promoted to Minister of Commerce, instead of appointing an official from the southwest region to take over, the top officials of the empire directly sent Hu Weize, the vice minister of the Ministry of Industry, from the central government. This was very rare in the past.

And just a few days ago, Wu Qunwen, the deputy governor of Chenzhou and also the minister of the state's official department, was suddenly transferred to the central official's department as the head of the first general office. This time, regardless of whether the empire was intentional or not, the spearhead was directed at him at the government of Anguo.

Chenzhou is the old nest of Duke An's Mansion. Once the empire wipes out the high-level political power of Duke Anguo Mansion in Chenzhou, the influence of Duke Anguo Mansion in Chenzhou will decline sharply.

Li Guangyu is currently concentrating on his own business. He is still not aware of the bad situation that the An Guo government is facing. Once the power of the An Guo government loses too much, his own development will also be affected.

The Tang Empire is not like the United States in the previous life, where the consortium can kidnap the government to a certain extent and let the government benefit for their consortium.

The Tang Empire is an imperial system. Although many improvements have been made and there is a parliament, the emperor is still the most powerful here. Emperor Li Fengcheng is not the emperor and queen of some constitutional monarchy countries in the previous life, just a rubber stamp.

Li Guangyu didn't pay attention to the system of the Great Tang Empire, otherwise he would have discovered that the Great Tang Empire has no political parties, and members of parliament from various regions are called national representatives.

The entire country of Sky Blue Star has a party prohibition order, just to prevent the emergence of political parties from threatening the rule of the imperial power.

With the development of the times and the repeated reforms of the empire, the law has become more and more perfect, especially the proposal of equality before the law, which completely ended the situation that the scholar-bureaucrats could not be punished.

Each of the successors of the imperial family has a wealth of job experience to be eligible to ascend to the throne. This requires not only political achievements, but also no stains.

Even though the parliament is sometimes a hand-raising party, but at critical moments, it can veto whether the incumbent emperor is eligible to continue to serve, and whether the successor emperor can take over.

And on some important matters, once more than one-third of the parliament expresses opposition, the matter cannot be passed, and the imperial emperor and government cannot enforce it.

Li Guangyu had no intention of going into politics, so he didn't care about the changes in the political situation of the empire at all. He thought that with the backing of the An Guo Gongfu, he could rest easy.

Li Leyue said: "Director Chen, as soon as I retire as an old man, I don't care about government affairs. Our government has always kept in mind the orders of the emperors for generations to safeguard the interests of the empire and the royal family. Anything that is beneficial to the development of the empire, our government will do everything. With full support, the Duke of Anguo will never do anything that harms the interests of the empire and the royal family."

Chen Minjie said with a smile: "An Guogong's contribution to the empire for hundreds of years, whether it is His Majesty or the people of the empire, will always remember it, and we also believe that the Anguo's government will never do anything that endangers the empire and the royal family. I just came to Xidu, and I hope Duke An can support and cooperate with my work."

"If Director Chen has anything that can use my old bones, I will do my best. You can transfer the personnel of the Duke's Mansion as you like."

Chen Minjie will not come to mobilize the personnel of the Duke's Mansion. You must know that the Duke's Mansion is quite powerful. In order to protect the safety of the Duke's Mansion, the imperial family allowed them to have no more than one battalion of private troops hundreds of years ago.

Although some reforms were carried out later, even some private troops of the prince continued to shrink. In the end, it was stipulated that the prince guarded a company, the duke had a platoon, and the marquis and earl had a squad. These troops were paid by the empire. Under the jurisdiction of the imperial army.

And the Duke of Anguo's mansion is quite special. Although his title is only a duke, they are also relatives of the emperor. At the same time, they have guarded the southwest for generations. A battalion, with an establishment of 860 people, maintains the safety of An Guogong's mansion in the western capital.

Now that Chen Minjie is a high-ranking officer in the empire, he naturally knows the equipment of the West Camp in this town. Its equipment is basically the same as that of the imperial city guards, so ordinary people dare not pay attention to them.

He also understands the reason why the royal family of the empire moved to the Duke's mansion. When the empire was established, the first Duke of An made great military achievements in the southwest, and such achievements were based on the suffering of others. Not a lot.

Especially in those days when transportation was inconvenient, and for the sake of the peace of the southwestern part of the empire, Duke Anguo had to guard the southwest, so there was a private army deployed to protect the security of Duke Anguo's mansion.

Especially more than 200 years ago, when several princes and more than [-] dukes of the empire rebelled, An Guogong firmly stood with the royal family and maintained the stability of the empire. , Promised that the establishment of a battalion in the government of Anguo would never be reduced.

This has also led to the fact that for more than 200 years, no matter which incumbent emperor adjusted the private army of the nobles and reduced the armed forces in the hands of the nobles, the government of Anguo would not be affected in any way.

Now the empire basically has no hereditary titles, even ordinary titles are extremely difficult to entrust, and now only the left and right ministers and the speaker can confer a good title, even if Chen Minjie has reached the first rank, he does not have any titles now.

The current empire only awards titles to those who have made outstanding contributions to the empire and have great influence, and it is difficult for imperial officials to have a chance to be awarded.

Not to mention the hereditary titles, they represent the glory of the past, and now the title is more of an incentive, which is not very meaningful. Now the empire basically does not grant more than a marquis, and even Zuo Xiang is just an earl.

Below the earl, there is no empire to provide you with bodyguards. It’s okay to hire more bodyguards for private individuals, as long as you have money. However, it is very difficult for the Tang Empire to obtain a gun license. Even if you are at the helm of a major consortium, you can get five at most. , it can only be a pistol.

This is incomparable to the battalion of the Duke of Anguo's mansion. This battalion has pistols, machine guns, grenades, sniper rifles, portable rockets, rifle grenades, etc.

Chen Minjie was really worried that if Li Leyue didn't cooperate, it would be very troublesome at that time. Although the military force of the Duke's Mansion could not make waves in the empire, it would have a considerable impact on the empire.

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