In the end, these excerpts were summarized on the secretariat's side, and theoretically speaking, the secretariat only sorted out these excerpts and then sent them to Li Xuan for personal review, and did not have the power to approve them.

However, the reason why the Secretariat has become the most important institution of the Hanlin Academy is because of this authority to organize, which can determine to a certain extent what excerpts are more important, and what excerpts can be seen by the Son of Heaven first, or even whether they can be seen or not, and then affect the imperial political arena.

Because Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, was very busy every day, it was impossible for him to carefully review hundreds of excerpts every day.

The excerpts that allow him to read carefully and give personal instructions are often the most important ones, such as high-level personnel changes, military affairs and other major affairs, in addition to the excerpts of the Imperial Study and the Hanlin Academy.

The rest of the ordinary excerpts, especially those with the same approval opinions of the Imperial Study and the Hanlin Academy, he often read them at a glance or knew them.

Sometimes he is lazy, and he is even too lazy to read, and directly comments on the back of the excerpt to 'read' and 'know'.

After all, there are hundreds of excerpts every day, and there are other messy things every day, and Li Xuan's time is not enough every day.

Generally speaking, after breakfast in the morning, he will arrive at his office at eight o'clock, and meet with the minister on duty in the imperial study and the big walker, and have a simple morning meeting, if there is no special event, it can often be finished in about half an hour.

Then Li Xuan will begin to review the excerpts, and this batch of readings will be reviewed until about eleven o'clock.

Then there is the reception of the courtiers, most of these courtiers are officials from all over the country who return to Beijing to report on their work, or the policy report before taking office, this meeting time, often lasts until more than 12 o'clock, and sometimes even directly give food, while eating and continuing to chat.

After chatting, Li Xuan would take a nap, wake up in the afternoon and continue to review the excerpts, and meet with ministers at intervals, these ministers are usually high-ranking officials, and they are usually temporarily visited for something.

Li Xuan looks at the time, sometimes he sees it, sometimes he is too lazy to see it.

In the evening, Li Xuan would summon the heads of various sections of the Hanlin Academy for a daily regular meeting, because at this time, it was often close to work, and Li Xuan asked them to talk about something and shut up, and most of the regular meetings ended within half an hour.

After the regular meeting of the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan's daily work for the day was basically over, and in the evening, if Li Xuan was diligent, he would work overtime to continue to review the excerpts.

However, he reviews the excerpts every day, and Rao is a self-proclaimed hard-working person like Li Xuan can't stand doing this every day, so he usually doesn't work overtime at night, or accompany his family, or enjoy the dance, even if he is in a daze in the office, he is not willing to continue to approve the excerpts.

This is daily life, and in addition, there are regular court meetings held on the first, 10th, and 20th days of the lunar month, and the number of courtiers participating in this regular court meeting is much larger than the number of courtiers in the daily morning meeting of the imperial study.

In the morning meeting of the imperial study, the participants were limited to the minister on duty and the minister on duty, and the number of people was often only about seven or eight people, and there were only a dozen people.

And in the routine court meeting, there is only one characteristic of the participants, that is, the heads of various departments!

On the civilian side, there are the heads of the ministries, the Imperial History of the Inspectorate, the judges of the ** Yuan, and other directly subordinate institutions, and the military generals are mainly the heads of the departments of the Privy Council and the Naval Command, as well as the three chiefs of staff of the Guard.

Combined, these people are about forty people.

However, such a court meeting is still only a small meeting, after all, it is a routine court meeting once every ten days, which is mainly used to discuss affairs, and the discussions are all important and contentious affairs.

Therefore, it is often easy for a heated argument to break out at such a routine court meeting, and it is normal to start all morning.

However, this kind of routine court meeting is still very different from the official court meeting, otherwise it would not be crowned with the word 'routine'.

Traditionally, court meetings are often formal court meetings with a large number of people participating, and hundreds of people participate casually, and the participants are not limited to high-ranking officials, but also clans, nobles, and the like.

This kind of big court meeting with hundreds or even thousands of people actually doesn't happen a few times a year.

This kind of grand court meeting is said to be the Son of Heaven receiving ministers to discuss matters, but let alone in the Tang Dynasty, even in other traditional dynasties, it has become a ritual, and it is not nonsense to discuss national affairs in the great court meeting with hundreds or even thousands of people!

The big guy gets up early in the morning to prepare, and he has to stand for at least a morning, let alone sit, even if he moves a little bigger, he will be impeached before the king's rudeness, in this kind of occasion, the minister who is a little less physically strong can't hold it.

Even Li Xuan himself is very guilty in this kind of court!

He has to get up at five o'clock in the morning, you know, in normal times, even if it is a small court, he gets up at seven o'clock, and usually goes to work in the front hall at eight o'clock.

I had to get up before five o'clock in the morning, freshen up under the service of a group of people, put on the dragon robe, eat a little breakfast, and then run to greet the Empress Dowager Bai, and then arrive at the hall on time at about seven o'clock!

Then sit on the tall golden dragon chair, wearing a dragon robe embroidered with dragon patterns in gold thread, wide but want to pass on several helps, with a luxurious, but extremely heavy crown on his head, and then sit motionless on the dragon chair like a god to accept the minister's bowing ceremony!

In the early years, Li Xuan still enjoyed the feeling of being shouted long live by thousands or even more people at the same time, but in the past ten years, he has just lost this feeling, and sometimes he feels that he is like a puppet sitting on the dragon chair, a little stupid.

However, this kind of great court meeting is a tradition of the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years, and the Tang Dynasty prides itself on being the orthodox Central Plains Dynasty, and it also pays attention to what benevolence and filial piety govern the country and restore the Zhou ceremony, so many of these traditional etiquettes will not easily give up changes.

Fortunately, this kind of big court meeting is often only once or twice a year, and the impact is not great.

The daily handling of government affairs is still a small-scale routine meeting, and as for the daily work, it is still based on the daily morning meeting, regular meeting, and review of excerpts.

It can be seen from this that it is very important to review the excerpts, and the actual power of the secretariat that has the authority to sort out the excerpts is actually very large, but although the real power is large, the restrictions given by Li Xuan are also very large.

First of all, not all officials in the secretariat have this authority, only the first-class secretary who really participates in the work of sorting out the excerpts, the director of the bachelor's department, the deputy director, and the accompanying secretary do not have this authority, and the second- and third-class secretaries below also do not have this authority, and there are only more than ten first-class secretaries who have this authority.

But all the first-class secretaries of the secretariat, that is, those first-class secretaries who have the right to participate in the sorting of excerpts, are basically personally selected by Li Xuan, and they must be lonely ministers, but anyone who has contact with the ministers outside is basically unlikely to become the first-class secretary, and they are strictly monitored by the Han Dynasty, and once there is any misconduct, it is basically over.

However, even if this is the case, it is difficult to completely guarantee that there will be no problems.

After all, any system has loopholes, and all Li Xuan can do is to improve the system as much as possible and strictly control it.

Otherwise, he would have to personally review hundreds of excerpts, which is impossible, even if he doesn't do anything in a day, he can't review so many excerpts.

It is necessary to give some power to the upper hand, but there must be a controlled downwind, so that the courtiers can contain each other.

This system, since Li Xuan was established, there have not been any major problems, as for whether there will be any problems in the future, it is possible, but Li Xuan also has no good way.

Whether it is the cabinet system and the ceremonial supervision system in the pre-Ming Dynasty, or the military aircraft department system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are actually many defects.

In this world, there can be no truly perfect system with no loopholes at all.

Today, Li Xuan reviewed the excerpt as usual, and after first dealing with the excerpt of military affairs and some personnel changes, he saw Chen Lifu's excerpt.

Chen Lifu's excerpt, although it is just talking about ordinary government affairs, but Chen Lifu is the person with a name on Li Xuan's side, basically the secretaries in the secretariat all know that this person is Jian Zaidixin, and the excerpts he sent will generally be reviewed by Li Xuan himself.

In addition to Chen Lifu's personal factors, it is also related to the content of this excerpt, which is about the merger of Shanghai County, and Shanghai is currently the largest industrial and commercial city in the empire, and the weight is very heavy, and this kind of matter naturally needs to be handled by Li Xuan personally.

In addition, the review opinions of the Imperial Study Room were inconsistent with the review opinions of the Industrial and Commercial Section of the Hanlin Academy, which was also the reason why the first secretaries of the Secretariat gave this fold to Li Xuan for review first.

The combination of these three aspects is to make this excerpt, among the hundreds of excerpts today, its priority list is included in the top ten.

Li Xuan picked it up and first read the details on the excerpt, in fact, the content of the excerpt is very simple, and the point is nothing more than to merge Shanghai, Huating and Jiading counties.

And the minister on duty in the imperial study made it clear that he was against it.

However, the Department of Industry and Commerce of the Hanlin Academy believes that there is a certain merit.

And Li Xuan himself, after a brief look, the first feeling is that this Chen Lifu seems to want to build a big Shanghai!

This combined with the development of Shanghai in later generations is also reasonable, Shanghai's development road is also a process of expansion, from the previous single county, to the greater Shanghai, and then to almost the entire Songjiang Prefecture is included.

However, what the cabinet said is also reasonable, and the Shanghai of the later generations is actually no different from the current Songjiang Mansion.

Although Shanghai in later generations was only a city, there were also districts under it, and now Songjiang Prefecture also has counties under it, and the difference between counties and districts is not big.

The crux of the development of Songjiang Prefecture or Shanghai is not whether to merge administratively, but rather to connect the regions or, more simply, the distribution of benefits.

And this, if after the merger, then it will be handled by the Shanghai County Yamen after the merger, and before the merger, then it will be handled by the current Songjiang Prefecture Governor's Yamen.

The essence doesn't change much!

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