Li Po paid no attention to Changsun Shunde's mood, and Fan Wenjin was his appointed attendant.
Part of the reason why Fan Wenjin moved into the residence of King Wei Zhao Yang Shuang after he returned to the capital was because Yang Shuang had served as Nayan, and Nayan was actually another name for Shizhong.
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Menxia Province was established, and Shizhong was the chief of the Menxia Province. However, the position of Shizhong existed since the Qin and Han Dynasties. With a rank of two thousand stones, he could barely be regarded as one of the senior officials in the court.
In fact, during the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Shizhong was just a government official sent by the prime minister to come and go in the palace to report affairs. It was similar to today's General Secretary, which shows that the official position was not high.
In the Han Dynasty, Shizhong became an official. The emperor selected his trusted followers to communicate inside and outside the palace. They traveled around the palace and asked questions. They also managed the emperor's daily life. Hell, such as filling the emperor's chamber pot, this was also the responsibility of the Shizhong.
one.
In this case, few foreign officials would be willing to be this servant.
Therefore, most of the servants at this time were controlled by eunuchs. Because the eunuchs gained power, they gradually gained the power to help the emperor review memorials, and finally a group of eunuchs headed by the ten permanent servants emerged.
Some of them actually perform the duties of serving as servants.
However, during the Qin and Han dynasties, there was no Tai Province, and only in the Eastern Jin Dynasty did the Menxia Province exist. Shizhong was the chief of the Menxia Province. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the power of the Menxia Province was expanding day by day, and eunuchs were excluded. The Menxia Province was gradually improved, with some
To gain the strength to compete with foreign Korea.
In the former Sui Dynasty, the governors of Menxia Province could freely switch between the two names of Shizhong and Nayan. You could change it and I could change it. I don’t know what the fuss was about.
However, the position and its responsibilities became more and more stable. It was the emperor's staff, helping the emperor to conduct government affairs, and also checking and balancing the two provinces in the outer court. The subordinate provinces had no real power in the outer court.
This is actually similar to the later establishment of institutions such as Jinyiwei, Dongchang, and Xichang. The emperor created a private department to prevent the foreign dynasty from losing control.
It's just that it's not as dark and cruel as the secret services controlled by eunuchs and powerful ministers.
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Although Li Po didn't care what Changsun Shunde thought, if he had just entered Chang'an for the first time, Li Po would never have done this, because Changsun Shunde was capable of causing chaos.
He not only represents a large part of the Luoyang clan, but the eldest grandson Shunde also actively marries with the Guanxi clan. It is said that one move can affect the whole body. When he has not gained a firm foothold, he wants to try his best to appease the eldest grandson Shunde.
represents the power.
Otherwise, how could the eldest grandson Shunde, who was from Henan and Li Yuan's mother-in-law, be left to serve in the province? It was just for the sake of showing off to some people.
But now, both the Guanxi nobles and the Luoyang people are thinking about how to live a better life under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, rather than thinking about joining the Ming Dynasty.
This also means that the Tang Dynasty is stable. In the past few years, everyone has been mentioning that the prosperous age is coming. In fact, starting from the attack on Goguryeo in the sixth year of Yuanzhen, the pace of the Tang Dynasty has become increasingly stable.
In the seventh year of Yuanzhen, the Tang Dynasty began to rush towards its prosperity, and the advantages of the Central Plains in manpower and material resources began to become increasingly apparent.
This is a sign of the cohesion of people's hearts. At this time, the thoughts of people in the family have also changed, and the impact of the war in the late Sui Dynasty is disappearing.
Those wounds and hatred are gradually being healed.
So nowadays, people like Changsun Shunde can form cliques and fight for power and gain at most, which caused Li Po's dissatisfaction, which led to such a result.
Li Po did this just to dig a hole for his eldest son, Shunde, to walk around in. If he didn't perform well, he would just find a way to be demoted from the capital like Yuwen Shiji.
In other words, Li Po has no intention of getting rid of Changsun Shunde. He doesn't do it much anymore because it's not necessary. Killing is always the last resort. Sometimes it just shows your stupidity and recklessness.
When you were the king of Han, you didn't have to worry about these things, but when you became the emperor, you didn't have to cause too much tragedy. Which wise emperor would be synonymous with cruelty?
Except for the First Emperor and Lao Zhu.
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Fan Wenjin's appointment document was sent by Changsun Shunde and Du Chuke together.
Needless to say, Du Chuke had a good heart and was a kind of honest and kind-hearted person, but he still fell out with Changsun Shunde, mainly because Changsun Shunde could not be called a good colleague.
He was too calculating and always wanted to win over this one and attack that one. When Feng Deyi was around, he still restrained himself and gave Du Chuke a few points. However, after Feng Deyi's death, in just a few months, he was now barely able to defeat Du Chuke.
Set up.
So you can imagine Du Chuke's mood at this moment. Are you kidding me? He is a descendant of the Jingzhao Du family, a serious Kansai race. If you piss him off, he will jump up and bite.
What made him most angry was the fierce fight between his uncle Du Yan and his eldest son Shunde. This was really old and new grudges, how could they be reconciled?
In another time and space, the Du Chuke brothers and Du Yan's uncle and nephew were arrested by Wang Shichong and imprisoned.
Du Yan demoted Wang Shichong through his connections. Because he had an old grudge with Du Ruhui, he suggested that he had Du Chuke's brother killed. He also locked Du Chuke in a cell without giving him food, and he almost starved to death.
Not long after Du Chuke fled back to Guanxi, Du Yan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and was sentenced to death for his crime. However, Du Chuke tried his best to persuade Du Ruhui to save him, saying that his eldest brother was already dead. If we watched our uncle being killed, how would Du's face be left in the world?
It may be difficult for later generations to understand this kind of incident, but this was the custom of the world at that time. If the drama of fratricide was staged once, Du Yan would already be infamous.
Brothers Du Ruhui and Du Chuke watched Du Yan being killed with cold eyes, and even stepped on him.
In this way, the hearts of the Jingzhao Du family will be dispersed, and outsiders will point fingers at them, and they must say a few words in private, they are a bunch of heartless and unjust people, and we cannot interact with them.
People in today's world must consider one thing, whether they are entering official positions, being promoted, or doing ordinary performance appraisals, and that is morality, in order to restrain the conduct of officials.
Things that happened during the war years were considered "excusable", but fratricide was just as hard to accept. Even the emperor had to leave a stain, let alone his ministers.
For example, Du Yan has been serving as the Minister of Rites for some years. It is extremely difficult to transfer him. In addition to the rareness of high-ranking officials, he may have framed his nephew to death.
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Now Du Chuke doesn't have so many worries. Du Ruhui is dead and he doesn't have to defend his brother's position as prime minister. The Du family in Jingzhao is quite irritating. Most people have been persuading Du Chuke to settle the matter and work with Du Yan to revitalize the family.
No matter how kind Du Chuke is, he is still very angry. It is not your biological brother who is dead in love, right? He is the only one left among the three brothers in the same family. Every time he thinks about it, he is extremely miserable.
In addition, when he was in charge of the provincial affairs, Changsun Shunde intentionally or unintentionally squeezed him out. He probably wanted to help Du Yan suppress his nephew, which made Du Chuke become more and more angry.
Today, Changsun Shunde is unlucky, so Du Chuke is no longer just a joke. The matter of adding insult to injury must be done to the end.
Let’s take care of the eldest grandson Shunde first, and then think about his uncle.
Changsun Shunde had almost recovered. He sat there with an expressionless face, but glanced at the emperor from time to time, probably still thinking about what might happen.
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Li Po looked at his eldest grandson, Shunde, and felt that his eldest grandson's psychological quality was still good, but he had been teased...but he didn't rush to the Tai Chi Hall to ask, "You treat me so poorly, it's not easy. It's not easy."
If I can be honest in the future...
Thinking of this, Li Po secretly shook his head in disgust. A dog cannot change its habit of eating shit. Changsun Shunde and others brought the style of the Luoyang court back to Chang'an when Yang Guang was in power.
By the way, he regarded Li Po as Yang Guang's second, which was something he absolutely could not tolerate. The war in the East China Sea was dragging on before, and in order to maintain the stability of the court, Li Po had no time to deal with this.
Now it's time to start solving internal problems. Forming a party under the sect? Colluding with foreign countries? It's really a shame these people can think of it.
If someone really came out of Chang'an's Seventh or Ninth Nobility, Li Po might as well just hit him to death himself.
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Li Po flipped through the edicts on the eucalyptus. In fact, there was nothing interesting to see. All that was needed was the emperor's seal to stamp it. And as Changsun Shunde thought, the appointment of the prime minister was clearly stipulated in the Tang Dynasty.
Whoever the emperor prefers, if the three provinces do not reject it together, then there will be no problem.
And that extreme situation is unlikely to happen. Before the emperor appoints a prime minister, he will definitely discuss it with other prime ministers. He can make it clear in private whether it is successful or not, and there is no need for direct confrontation between the king and his ministers.
Once the three provinces reject the edict, it means that a big political accident has occurred, and there are only a few reasons for the accident.
One is that the emperor is fatuous. The people he appoints are simply not good enough to convince the public, and he has no intention of discussing with everyone. He wields imperial power arbitrarily, which arouses fierce resistance from his ministers. If the emperor does that, he may not live for a few days.
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Then there were powerful ministers in the court who had irreconcilable conflicts with the imperial power. The conflict in the court fell into a life-or-death situation, and the result should be similar to before.
The third one may be the harem, where the eunuchs have exclusive power, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of the courtiers. The conflict has come to the surface, and a fierce political struggle is inevitable.
Anyway, no matter what the above situation happens, for a dynasty, it has reached a critical moment, and it will have to change the dynasty if it is not careful.
Let’s take Luoyang at the end of the Sui Dynasty as an example. When Yang Tong succeeded to the throne and the former Sui Dynasty was still alive, the strange phenomenon of the Seven Nobles in Luoyang appeared. The power of personnel appointments was in the hands of these people.
Not to mention appointing prime ministers, Yang Tong was unable to appoint or remove even seventh-rank officials. The fall of imperial power was a sign of troubled times.
As far as the bureaucracy of the feudal dynasty is concerned, it is all personal services prepared for the imperial power, so how can the messy Luoyang Qigui be able to play well?