Chapter 101: Fooling the Pit Man
Although Li Xuan's nine-ministry system seems to be similar to the cabinet of later generations, it is different from the cabinet system of later generations that there is no cabinet prime minister or prime minister on this nine-ministry system, and above the nine ministries, he is the emperor.
The reason why Li Xuan did this was naturally to personally control the power, and without the rank of prime minister or prime minister, he, the emperor, would be able to directly govern the nine ministries.
As an emperor, when Li Xuan formulated the official system, he naturally tended to the model of the emperor's centralized power, Zhu Yuanzhang, a cattle herding monk, knew that in order to prevent the prime minister from abolishing the prime minister's power, he Li Xuan naturally would not be stupid, and then make a prime minister.
As for whether it will be very tiring to say that you must bow in person, whether you are busy or not, there are more than 2,000 people in the Tang Dynasty, even if you take out all the trivial things you want to discuss, it is impossible to be so busy.
As for the fact that the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded in the future, and there are more people under his rule, it is really too busy to be busy, so it will be changed when the time comes.
And if there is really a day when he can't be busy, Li Xuan can wake up with a smile in his dreams, because it means that the scale of the Tang Dynasty has expanded and grown into a real dynasty.
As for now, Li Xuan just wants to get a better name, and by the way, instill the concept of formal officialdom in these bandits.
However, in order to appease Liu Bagou and the others, and fulfill their dreams of being prime minister and first assistant, Li Xuan waved his pen and ordered the establishment of the six major halls of scholars, and named Liu Bagou and them as university scholars.
This scholar is in the pseudo-Ming Dynasty, that is a symbol of the elder pavilion, and Liu Bagou who listened to them was overjoyed, but Li Xuan did not plan to copy the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty and let the scholar counselor take care of the machine, this scholar is actually a part-time title.
Li Xuan came up with this nine-ministry system and scholars, and there is a purpose behind it that has not yet been said to anyone, that is, after the scale of the Tang Dynasty expands and the affairs begin to become busy, he will create a secretarial organization belonging to the emperor's private family in addition to the nine ministries, that is, an institution similar to the Qing Dynasty's Military Aircraft Department.
The Military Aircraft Department is actually the emperor's private secretary, not to mention whether it is good for the country or not, but it has a huge effect on the concentration of imperial power.
The Military Aircraft Department, but it is a product of the peak period of imperial power concentration, and Li Xuan has no reason not to use it.
The determination of the civil official body did not cause any controversy, why, because so far in the Tang Dynasty, there were only three civil officials, and Li Xuan waved his hand and made these three people university scholars, satisfying their dream of being an elder, Liu Bagou naturally did not have any opinions.
In addition to the civilian institutions, there will naturally be military institutions.
Li Xuan attached more importance to military institutions, and he referred to the military institutions of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and combined them with the military institutions of later generations and modern times.
In the end, the combination of ancient and modern times, the Privy Council was established to control military orders, and military and political affairs were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.
To put it simply, the Privy Council is in charge of training, warfare, and defense transfers, while the Ministry of War is in charge of recruitment, personnel, and ordnance supply.
In short, it is to divide military power in two.
Secondly, Li Xuan did not set up a position such as the head of the Privy Council, in other words, he directly controlled this institution.
And the main reason for doing this is still to divide power and avoid the excessive power of a subordinate general or agency.
The Privy Council has various divisions, commanding the armies of the Tang Dynasty, including the Standing Army, the Left and Right Armies, the Zhenxi Army, and the Guards.
Among them, the Guards directly belonged to the emperor and belonged to the army of the Son of Heaven.
Originally, Li Xuan still wanted to take the opportunity to directly use the number number, such as the first army, the second army and the like, but considering that this is too shocking, so he will abandon it, anyway, the scale of the Datang Standing Army is small now, and there is no need for any number number, and he will do it after there are tens of thousands of troops in the future.
The establishment of the Privy Council has little effect in other aspects, and the real role is only one, that is, to facilitate the emperor's direct control of military power.
If you carefully analyze the nine-ministry system and the Privy Council created by Li Xuan, then you will find that there is only one core content, that is, 'concentration of imperial power'.
It's a pity that few people can see Li Xuan's ambition in this Tang Dynasty!
Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu Although they are scholars, they are all the kind of people who read dead books, and they are not very enlightened, looking at a lot of official regulations written by Li Xuan, they can understand it, but if you want them to say what is the deep meaning behind this, it will be too reluctant.
As for Fang Dongquan and them, they didn't even know a word, they couldn't read it, they could only listen to Li Xuan, and when Li Xuan said it, he naturally avoided the important and trivialized, but he wouldn't tell them stupidly: In the future, Lao Tzu will be in charge of military power, you just need to be responsible for leading the troops to fight, and don't worry about other things.
After some flickering, the civil and military ministers of the Tang Dynasty unanimously agreed with Li Xuan's official reform plan, and even kept boasting about how holy Li Xuan was.
Li Xuan is embarrassed, if you become smarter in the future, and find out that the official system I created is actually to centralize the imperial power, I don't know how you will feel?
This official system was discussed all morning, during which the official rank system was also determined by the way, that is, the nine-grade system, which has nothing special about this nine-grade system, basically following the pseudo-Ming nine-grade system.
However, even if the official system is made, what is embarrassing is that the current Tang Dynasty can't even make up nine Shangshu.
There is no way, there are few talents in the Tang Dynasty, and there are only three civil officials who can read and write, but at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was the time when it was necessary to recruit talents in an eclectic manner, so Li Xuan waved his pen and sealed the people who originally followed Liu Bagou and a few of them to do things and could barely read and write.
Regardless of how unqualified they are, give them an official first, anyway, the Tang Dynasty is so small now, and there is no need for someone full of wealth to be an official, just be able to recognize words.
As a result, all the people in the Tang Dynasty who could read and write, even if they only knew a few hundred words, and those who could write twisted and twisted all turned over overnight and became Shangshu, Shilang, Shaoqing, and the worst one was also a Zhengwupinlang.
As for the five grades, I'm sorry, the Tang Dynasty is too awesome, so there are no such low-level officials!
After a busy day, everyone went back with the joy of being promoted, but Li Xuan was still thinking about the follow-up plan.
Today's reform of the official system is only the first step, and the second step is the key point, that is, the reform of the military system, and this reform of the military system is not the military order and military administration as it is called today, but the detailed establishment of the army.
The establishment of the army can directly affect the army's equipment and combat mode, and whether it can block the Ming army's attack in the future, Li Xuanke is counting on whether the military reform can succeed.
Otherwise, relying on the bandit mode where the current war is a swarm of swarms, Li Xuan can't see any hope of stopping the Ming army!