"What's the matter?" Putting away his complacent sighs, Liu Chengyou turned around, paying attention to the several memorials held in Lu Yin's hands, and asked.
Lu Yin replied seriously: "Returning to your majesty, the Guangzheng Palace has already discussed the adjustment of the chief executives of various provinces. Please give your majesty your approval!"
"Oh?" Liu Chengyou suddenly became serious. This was a big deal. He immediately stretched out his hand and said, "Let me take a look!"
After hearing this, Lu Yin was about to present the most important memorial. Emperor Liu took advantage of the situation and sat in front of the map, opened it and reviewed it carefully. The chief envoy, in the current official system of the Han Dynasty, was undoubtedly the most important person in the local Daozhou. The main chief executive, and in more than ten years of practice, has become customized, accepted by the bureaucrats, and included in the Han Dynasty's canon system.
However, so far, only those Daozhi that have stabilized the situation and have formed a stable rule have set up separate envoys. Until now, taking into account the different people's sentiments in various places, the situation in the border areas, or special missions, Emperor Liu There are also some flexible ways to appoint officials.
In this case, official positions such as governor envoy, pacification envoy, inspection envoy and patrol envoy came into being. There is no doubt that the position of governor envoy was an "original creation" of Emperor Liu. It first appeared in In the fifth year of Qianyou's reign in the Han Dynasty, Fan Zhi, in the name of governor of Hedong, went north to inspect the prisons. Later, he directly led the restructuring of Hedong and completely brought it under the rule of the imperial court.
Later, Li Tao resigned as prime minister. In order to comfort his old ministers, to appease Jinghu, which had just been recovered, and to show that he attached great importance to Jinghu, he specially appointed him as the governor of Jinghu and went south to Tanzhou. In addition to his supervisory function, he already had some administrative functions. attribute.
Later, when Sichuan and Sichuan were pacified, Zhao Pu first took charge of the affairs of Chengdu and was in charge of the administration of Zhongzhou and counties in Sichuan. Later, he became the governor of the southwest, cooperating with the three administrative envoys of Sichuan and Sichuan to ensure the peace of the people. Although the administrative power was still with the administrative envoy in his hands, but the governor's influence has increased.
Until now, Li Tao is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Fan Zhi is the governor of Liangjiang, and Zan Jurun is the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. They are fully responsible for the administration of newly acquired lands. Of course, whether under Emperor Liu or under the Han Dian system, governors are still dispatched on a temporary basis.
Coupled with Zhao Pu who still patrols Sichuan and Sichuan, today's Han Dynasty has "four major governors". Among them, Zhao Pu naturally attracts the most attention. He is the most capable and the youngest. He is only in his early forties. It can be seen that Liu The emperor's favor.
There were two pacification envoys, Han Xizai's southeast pacification envoy, and Yong Wang Liu Chengxun's Youji pacification envoy. As mentioned earlier, Han Xizai was mainly responsible for reform, while Liu Chengxun was in Hebei on behalf of the royal family, which had a more symbolic significance.
The official position of inspection envoy has appeared quite frequently. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been countless officials. They are usually set up to suppress local areas, maintain public security or put down rebellions. They can range from one inspection to several states. Inspections range from one prefecture to one county, and there are also inspection envoys from the capital in Kaifeng.
In the early years, the Duke of Dai, Zhe Congruan, served as the patrol envoy to the six northwest states. He led the army to the west and was responsible for quelling the rebellion of pheasants, cattle-killing and other miscellaneous rebels in the northwest. After the rebellion was over, the rebellion was cancelled.
However, due to the local tranquility, the strengthening of public security, the improvement of the capital system, and the establishment of the Forbidden Army Inspection Department, local inspection envoys were gradually removed. In the previous episode, Hongzhao, the Duke of Xingguo, used the inspection envoy in Longxi to , succeeded the old and frail Duke Wang Jing of Baoguo to take charge of Lanzhou, guarding the achievements of development, and became one of the few remaining inspection envoys of the Han Dynasty.
As for the patrol envoy, it is also an "original" and a military-oriented position. Only two people were entrusted with this position. One was Li Gu's Jianghuai patrol envoy at that time, which was to prepare for Pingnan, and the other was Pingnan.
Before the war in the south, Chai Rong was appointed as the patrol envoy to the northwest. Of course, the actual power was also different.
It is not only because of the different situations and goals, but also because of the different degrees of decentralization of power by the emperor. In the imperial era, as a powerful person with the title of Tianxian Emperor, his likes and dislikes, closeness, and trust level can often determine the different powers of the same position.
, which is basically unavoidable.
Chai Rong, the patrol envoy, is of course not as powerful as Li Gu in Jianghuai. The most intuitive manifestation is that the northwest garrison that Chai Rong can mobilize is only 5,000 people. Moreover, there are many restrictions, and detailed reports need to be made afterwards.
However, Li Gu's Jianghuai inspection envoy had already been withdrawn.
Speaking of the control of military power, Emperor Liu has put a lot of effort into controlling military power over the years, both in terms of personnel and systems. However, sometimes, he has to admit that he wants to let the court, let people
It is impossible for the emperor to completely control the country's military and avoid all hidden dangers.
The country is so huge, the territory is so vast, and the transmission of information is inconvenient, especially in places facing military pressure. If you have to ask Tokyo for instructions before making a decision on everything, then the day lily will be cold.
Of course, you can also do it absolutely and strictly control the generals, but the consequences of that will be military rigidity, inability to respond, and ultimately internal control but external aggression. Therefore, very early on, Emperor Liu also overcorrected, but later, he still
There were some changes, and they did not completely stifle the autonomy of the generals in order to restrain the generals. Initially, it was to deal with the military pressure from the Liao State in the direction of Hebei, and He Fujin was deployed with Hebei Province at that time to have certain authority to mobilize troops.
No policy or system is perfect. There are always loopholes and shortcomings, and they need to be constantly adjusted according to the development of the situation. In terms of border affairs and military affairs, Emperor Liu could only make some patches on the basis of delegating power.
In fact, as long as the state power is stable and the court has sufficient authority, basic guarantees can be obtained under the operation of a reasonable system. But once the authority of the court is gone and the country is in turmoil, no matter how strong the restrictions are, they will be powerless.
However, such an approach as putting military, political and financial power in the hands of one person was impossible in the Han Dynasty.
After talking so much, Emperor Liu also finished reviewing the list. He stood up and walked to the imperial desk, picked up the ink pen for approval, and said to Lu Yin: "I don't have any objections. You can appoint them according to this.
, hurry up and return to Beijing to report on your work!"
"yes!"
Emperor Liu was basically satisfied with the proposed list of governors, because it basically reflected Emperor Liu's will. In this list, in addition to the governors mentioned above, the rest of the governors include old faces and new faces.
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Shanyang Road and Guannai Road were still Song Qi and Wu Xingde; Bian Guangfan was transferred to Hubei Road; in his early years, he was the imperial censor, the inspector of Huaixi Province, and the former chief envoy of Huaibei Road, Bian Guifen, was transferred to Hunan Road;
Wang Ming was transferred to Huaidong; Chu Zhaofu was transferred to Yanshan Road; Wu Tingzuo of Hexi Road was a man who was both civilized and military-minded and had great political achievements in Lanzhou before; Lu Huaizhong went west to Lanzhou to serve as Longyou Road, which was also able to deal with the border.
Talents who are in a hurry.
In addition, Shi Dejun, the son of Duke Shi Hongzhao of Yingguo, was promoted to Hedong Road; his uncle Li Hongwei, Duke of Linzi County, was transferred to Henan Road; Li Shaoyou, Duke of Shou State, was transferred to Hebei Road; and Jingxi Road was probably somewhat unexpected, but it was originally Sun Guangxian, the prefect of Jiangling, was an old minister, an old politician, and a surrendered minister. It must be said that his knowledge and service back then received the greatest reward many years later.
Of course, there is also the most important and highest-status Gyeonggi Province, which was appointed by Song Yanwo. Hebei, Henan, and Gyeonggi Province, these three central plains, can be said to be the core area and foundation of the rule of the Han Dynasty. And its chief executive, Regardless of whether they are Li Shaoyou, Li Hongwei or Song Yanwo, they are all foreign relatives and close relatives of the royal family. It is obvious that Emperor Liu did not employ all people based on merit, but also had a nepotistic side.
"What else is there? Let's talk about it together!" Liu Chengyou continued to ask Lu Yin.
Lu Yin replied: "The Privy Council received a report from Li Wanchao, the inspection envoy of Feng Sheng, saying that he is old and weak and is afraid that he will not be able to bear the weight of the defense. I hope the court will make preparations as soon as possible!"
After hearing this report, Emperor Liu immediately stroked his forehead and said: "This is for me! But I was negligent. Four years have passed..."