Chapter 1091: Your Majesty, military and national affairs are nothing to play with!
Chapter 1100 Your Majesty, military and national affairs are nothing to play with!
Zhang Yue was on duty at Zhongshu that day.
After spending an afternoon dealing with the military information and urgent reports sent by various military envoys in Shaanxi Province, Zhang Yue gave instructions and replies one by one.
Mainly it's a matter of communication.
Many of the news and reports from local generals, military envoys, transit envoys, magistrates and other officials were ten or even fifteen days old.
No matter how Zhang Yue gives instructions, there is still a problem of time difference.
That's why he advocated the establishment of a Privy Council in Shaanxi to solve the communication problem.
On medium and urgent matters, the Privy Council can make the decision, but on major and slow matters, the Secretariat can make the decision.
But after dealing with official duties for an afternoon, Zhang Yue felt that he was a little out of energy. In the past, he had the help of passing exams, and he did not feel tired after studying for several hours. Now he has not failed, and he is close to his forties, and he has been idle at home for a long time.
, after a lot of hard work, I felt it was unsustainable.
Zhang Yue couldn't help but have the idea of taking a vacation after going to work just now. This is a common problem for people who have been idle for a long time.
At this time, Song Yongchen came to Zhongshu and said to Zhang Yue: "Your Majesty knew that the Prime Minister was staying overnight today, so he prepared a table of royal meals and gave it to the Prime Minister alone."
After saying this, the chamberlains entered the palace and set a table of imperial meals. A dozen chamberlains entered carrying dozens of food boxes of various sizes. This shows that the prime minister was very valuable and the emperor valued him.
Zhang Yue took a look and asked, "Your Majesty, could you please relax a little?"
Song Yongchen said: "Your Majesty has not been in charge since this afternoon, and now he has just taken some medicinal food."
Zhang Yue said: "Just in time, Yu Zheng is about to enter the palace to announce something."
Song Yongchen said: "Prime Minister, why don't you go after finishing the royal meal?"
Zhang Yue said: "Don't stay here in an emergency. We'll use it when we get back."
Zhang Yue immediately got up and entered the palace.
Song Yongchen looked at the table of royal meals in a daze and thought to himself, Prime Minister Zhang serves the king directly. I understand why the government made him prime minister.
Song Yongchen looked at the dazed palace servants and said, "What else are you thinking about? I'll take it to the imperial dining room to heat it up immediately."
Zhang Yue came to the emperor's palace. The official was lying on the couch, and the palace servants were feeding him medicinal food. As soon as Shi De saw Zhang Yue entering, he immediately placed a chair in front of the emperor's bed. The official waved to the palace servants who were feeding him medicinal food.
Also retreat.
Seeing that he interrupted the official's meal, Zhang Yue apologized before taking his seat.
In the past, when I was participating in politics, I could not often meet the emperor alone because I was worried about the authority of the prime minister. Now that I have become the prime minister, I no longer have such scruples, and the emperor and his ministers can talk privately.
The official said: "You are very good at debating the Privy Council! But I never thought that if I had known this idea, why would I have to do everything myself?"
Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel ashamed after hearing what the officials said. He didn't want to be in the Privy Council. He was learning from the system of later generations.
The Xing Privy Council was invented by the Jin Kingdom. There was also the Xing Zhongshu Province, which was invented by the Yuan Dynasty. This system was referred to as the Xing Province, and the names of various "provinces" in later generations were passed down from this.
Why is there a privy council and provincial system?
In fact, it is related to the struggle for supreme power and the contradiction between the central and local governments. Similarly, there is the governor-general established in the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to a branch of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
There was a power struggle between the imperial power and the two governments. The officials used troops against the northwest, but Privy Councilor Feng Jing and many officials collectively opposed it. At the same time, the emperor did not trust civil servants, so he let Wang Zhongzheng and Gao Zunyu, relatives and eunuchs, lead the army.
soldiers.
The failure of Yanyan Road in the end proved that foreign relatives and eunuchs were not candidates to lead the army. At the same time, the central control of the battle situation was indeed difficult to deal with the ever-changing battle situation.
The official appointed Zhang Yue as prime minister and took charge of the war against Xia. If Zhang Yue intervened directly, it would easily lead to conflicts between the imperial power and the prime minister's power.
So choose an official from the Privy Council.
In this way, the Zhongshu can control it, the Privy Council can also control it, and the emperor can also control it.
The same was true for the Jin Dynasty. The highest military institution of the Jin Dynasty was the Capital Command, which was a legacy of the tribal system. The Privy Council was directly controlled by the emperor to weaken the power of the Capital Command and return power to the central government.
Zhang Yue said to the official: "Your Majesty, you are ridiculous. I am also considering the system of ministerial affairs in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Local autonomy is extensive, while central government is refined..."
The official said: "Very good. I was worried before that the Privy Council's handling of the Six-Road Economic Strategy and Appeasement Department would have too much power and responsibility, but now it seems that it does make sense."
"As for Han Zhen, I am very fond of him."
Zhang Yue said: "The Privy Council only directs military affairs and dispatches troops and horses. In addition, it has no interference with local people, property, and personnel. At the same time, it does not give any state the power to govern."
"I believe that if the management is small, then power will be delegated; if the management is large, power will be decentralized. This is the ancestral system. It can also eliminate the disadvantages of the previous dynasty's Xingtai and governorship."
Zhang Yue explained to the officials how to centralize power, and the officials listened with rapt attention.
To put it bluntly, Legalism has been favored by emperors from ancient times to the present, and it is also a qualification for official promotion.
To be honest, Zhang Yue is proficient in this way, but he also rejects it.
What's the advantage of traveling to the Privy Council?
The pacification envoys along the route all serve as governors of one prefecture on the same road and are also in charge of the military and horsemen along the route. For example, the pacification envoys on the Xihe Road are also the magistrates of Xizhou, and the pacification envoys on the Yanzhou Road are also the magistrates of Yanzhou.
The economic and strategic pacification envoys are in charge of not only the troops along the way, but also the politics of a state.
For example, in Water Margin, Song Jiang was finally appointed as the pacifier of Chuzhou and the commander-in-chief of troops and horses. If you are not concurrently the magistrate of Chuzhou, you have no qualifications to intervene in civil affairs. The pacifier only talks nicely. Song Jiang's real job is just the commander-in-chief of troops and horses in Chuzhou.
That's all, this is only the state's military commander, not the road commander.
Lu Junyi is still the deputy general manager, so he even farts without even making a sound.
The six-way privy envoy has great control, but its actual function is like the Chuzhou pacification envoy, which is water without a source. Without the support from above, you can't move a single soldier. It's just that Songjiang is in charge of a state.
The Privy Council only manages dozens of military states.
Zhang Yue expounded the policy of the Privy Council, which won the favor of the officials and made him very happy.
After saying this, the official said: "I heard that Zhongshu wanted to write a congratulatory note for the victory in Lanzhou. This fact is unnecessary."
Zhang Yue said: "According to the system, if you capture a state, ministers from both governments will send congratulations. What's more, Lanzhou will be an important town on Xihe Road and the seat of the road administration."
The official shook his head and said: "I received news from Tong Guan the day before yesterday that Dong Fei was about to succeed in his attack on Liangzhou, but from the report of the captured Dangxiang leader, the Westerners dug a seventh-level canal of the Yellow River and flooded Lingzhou, and the Jingyuan soldiers under the city
I don’t know what to do now?”
Zhang Yue looked shocked when he heard this. No wonder there was no news about the troops on Jingyuan Road for the past five or six days.
"Now the Qingtang tribe has withdrawn from Liangzhou City. No matter how much Tong Guan persuaded him, he couldn't stop it. We took it because Renduoyading was not in the city. Yes, I heard that Renduoyading is in Lingzhou City."
Zhang Yue looked at the officials and remained silent.
From Liangzhou to Bianjing, this news was at least fifteen days ago.
The official said: "At this time, I don't want to receive any congratulations!"
"Your Majesty can be said to have been entrusted with the task of being in danger and being ordered to do so when the army was defeated."
This was what was said on the discharge list. Zhang Yue quickly left his seat and said: "Your Majesty, how dare I compete with Marquis Wu."
The official signaled Zhang Yue to sit down: "If you don't compete, you should do it."
"If the Jingyuan Road troops and horses are also wiped out, this also includes Zhang Zhi's 20,000 Xihe Road troops. Once this comes true, the northwest will be almost collapsed. It will be difficult to defend the northwest in the future, let alone destroy Xia. Really
What a huge mess.”
"It's more difficult than Wu Hou Qi's departure from Qishan. Can you take care of it?"
Zhang Yue didn't know what to say after hearing this.
The Qing Tang Dynasty withdrew its troops from Liangzhou City without authorization. It can be seen that they were only fighting against the wind. Once the situation was unfavorable, they would immediately surrender to Xia.
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I think this matter is not yet known, or the Westerners are deliberately inciting the morale of the army."
The official smiled reluctantly.
Anyway, the officials seemed to have no hope at all for the Xixia war situation.
Zhang Yue thought to himself, this is not what someone who achieves great things would do.
Zhang Yue remonstrated sternly: "Your Majesty is wrong. When planning things, you are full of confidence. When doing things, you can't stand even a little setback."
"Those who have achieved great things at home and abroad in ancient and modern times are all very mentally strong. How can there be those who give up halfway due to setbacks? Does your Majesty regard military and national affairs as child's play?"
After Zhang Yue finished speaking, the officials were stunned when they heard this.
Shi Deyi was also shocked.
After hearing this, the official was silent for a long time and said: "What Zhang Qing said is absolutely true. How do you view the situation in the west?"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, I thought that in the situation at hand, the attack on Xia must have been defeated, but Lanzhou was indeed captured."
The official shook his head and said: "How can we destroy Xia if we capture Lanzhou?"
Zhang Yue said: "Your Majesty, don't you hear that the skills are getting better and better, and the Tao is getting worse every day?"
Shi De said: "Prime Minister Zhang, our family has only heard that the more you learn, the more you learn, and the more you learn, the more you lose."
No matter what others think, Zhang Yue regards the Tao Te Ching as a theory of success.
To do means to do it with intention, and to do nothing means to do it without intention.
The original text of the Tao Te Ching states that when it comes to reading, if you are determined to do it every day, you will make progress every day, but in seeking the Tao, if you are determined to do it, you will suffer losses every day.
The chapter has been changed more and more here.
Why should Tao be pursued unintentionally? Because ‘Tao’ cannot be set as a goal.
Before things are done, people who just keep talking about it all day long and publicize it to everyone know that such people generally can't get things done.
But smart people know what needs to be done, and no one should talk about it.
People are often criticized for being too "purposeful" in doing things. The minister clearly wants to be appreciated by the emperor, but in the end he acts too deliberately, which is self-defeating.
This commits the problem of "suffering from the sun for the sake of the Tao".
"Doing nothing without doing anything" does not tell you not to do "inaction" that will be appreciated by the emperor, but it means acting more naturally and saying that it will happen naturally. This is "doing nothing is better than doing something".
The problem of an official is like reciting a few lines of Buddhist scriptures, sitting for a few hours, and then pestering the master and asking himself whether he has attained enlightenment.
He is so ambitious that he thinks he can accomplish difficult things, but he doesn't care about things that can be accomplished.
Zhang Yue said seriously: "Your Majesty, our Western Army is more than enough to conquer Lanzhou, but not enough to destroy Xia."
"The reason why I came out of the mountain is because your majesty allowed me to make a shallow attack. This is to 'accumulate small victories into big victories'. Today I conquer a state, and tomorrow I will conquer another state. I seek ways to achieve my goal and achieve small goals one by one in order to destroy the mountain."
Xia's big goal. If your Majesty insists on completing it in one battle, then it will be beyond my power."
After hearing this, the official said humbly: "What the Prime Minister said is absolutely true. I am impatient again."
"As you said, when it comes to destroying Xia, you should seek the Dao for the sake of technique, not for the Dao!"
The officials felt a little sad for some reason after hearing this, and looked out the window with a little helplessness.
Zhang Yue said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, the Spring and Autumn Period are in full bloom, so why worry about not being able to destroy Xia?"
"Even if there are many difficulties, I will fulfill this long-cherished wish for Your Majesty!"
After saying this, Zhang Yue left his seat and bowed solemnly to the Emperor.
The official smiled and said: "Yes, I am overly worried. I am determined to rejuvenate our Song Dynasty and avenge the shame of our ancestors. With such wise men and women as you supporting me, why worry about not being able to achieve great things?"
"In my opinion, I may not be as good as Taizong Xuanzong, but Fang Du and Yao Chong are not as good as Qing!"
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