Chapter 1847 In this era, there is no perfect system
Even if he is not a courtier who is used to playing tricks in the court, Shi Xiu is still keen to understand why brother Xiao Tang set up this official agency and then entrusted him with such an important task. Gradually, the expression on Shi Xiu's face also changed. Becoming a little solemn, he immediately responded solemnly with fists clasped, saying frankly that he would not let down Xiao Tang's trust.
Just talking about the power tactics in the imperial court, Shi Xiu is indeed not as good as those veterans who have experienced overt and secret fights and party attacks in the officialdom for a long time, but he does not need to be well versed in those machinations. How much influence did the successive commanders of the Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty create during their tenure? The turmoil was entirely due to whether the reigning emperor at the time was willing to delegate power to the Jinyiwei. In fact, several emperors such as Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Zhanji, and Zhu Youtang in the Ming Dynasty had attempts to suppress or even eliminate the Jinyiwei during their reign. So, then All the special rights of Jinyiwei will also be greatly reduced...
However, Xiao Tang's attitude towards Shi Xiu, the first, and most likely the only, general manager of the Yiluan Town Fusi Activities Department, was: Since I have delegated power to you, just go ahead and do it.
As long as he has the power personally delegated by Xiao Tang, Shi Xiu is shrewd and decisive, and has strong execution ability. As long as he has the means to find court officials and local officials have evidence of evil deeds, as long as there are few cases with real evidence Basically, you can punish him to death. Just like Cai Jing, the former power minister of the Song Dynasty, no matter how old and ghostly he is, he will still be suppressed by the king if he touches the bottom of Zhao Ji. And Shi Xiu, as Xiao Tang Thoroughly investigate the illegal and evil deeds of representatives of various government offices.
However, the Fusi of Yiluan Town is only a supervisory agency that exercises imperial power. If we want to establish a complete administrative system, we must also consider that the national court has issued decrees to various roads and prefectures, and the central government has overseen inspections and participated in politics. Whether the officials in the court, as well as the roads, states, and counties assigned to take charge of grain storage, farming, people's livelihood, water conservancy, prisons, and other political affairs are competent or not, it is not just the Fusi of Yiluan Town who are outside the system of official supervision. Because of the violent government agencies, the supervision work within the administrative system is also very important. In view of this, Xiao Tang thought of two very suitable candidates: Pei Xuan and Sun Ding.
Pei Xuan and Sun Ding, two men with upright official backgrounds, would never let up on the question of whether officials from the central government and even from all over the country are corrupt and talented. According to the national system, various government offices have been upgraded rapidly. Zi Bian wanted to expand a large number of officials. The matter of promotion and appointment was of course to select people for the officials. Korean enterprises who were good at discovering and supporting knowledgeable people and had strong administrative capabilities had to work hard. However, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the imperial civil service system In the Liao Dynasty in the Central Plains, the proportion of Han scholars would inevitably be very large. Since these people had taken root under the rule of the Jin Dynasty and worked as their political officials, especially in this current situation, Xiao Tang did not have to worry about them. There was some rebellion between the Song and Jin countries, where the relationship was weak. However, in order to prevent one faction from getting too big in the court, Xiao Tang also planned to place his confidants in key positions in various government agencies to balance the situation. The imperial bureaucracy.
Of course, Xiao Tang did not intend to completely copy the Song court's official position system. In fact, the official positions in the Song Dynasty were the most redundant and cumbersome. Xiao Tang did urgently need political talents, but there was no such thing as what the Song court needed (in fact, it was not necessary). Such an exaggeration. "Redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses" was also one of the characteristics of the political system of the Song Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, there were about thirty or forty people in each imperial examination, but the Song Dynasty easily admitted four to five hundred. The most exaggerated year The imperial court can recruit more than 17,000 scholars in one term. Comparing the periods of Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Song Dynasty Mingjun Song Renzong, both are almost the most wise emperors in the dynasties ruled by their respective clans, while the Song Dynasty The territory under his jurisdiction was only about one-half of the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Even so, Li Shimin once reduced the number of officials in the central government departments from more than 2,000 to more than 600. However, compared with the same period during the reign of Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen, There are more than 17,000 officials, large and small, serving in the Gyeonggi Road, Tokyo, Bianliang and other government offices...
Moreover, the regime that has been labeled as the Northern Song Dynasty in history is still lingering on. Most of the officials in the central government of the imperial court have never been taken advantage of by the Jurchens. There will be no team of Zhao Gou of the Southern Song Dynasty to rebuild the political power, and there will be no Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty who wants to revolution.
The disadvantages of redundant officials, and the reduction of the number of feudal officials is three points less than one in the old system. There are too many people, and the organization is so bloated that there is even an overflow of officials. In terms of redundant soldiers, it is only after the Yuanfeng reform that a large number of officials were abolished in the Song Dynasty, and their status was even lower.
The military departments are complicated and complex. Even the reforms that the stubborn Prime Minister Anshi tried hard to eradicate were unable to eradicate this shortcoming. However, for Xiao Tang, these problems did not need to be considered. Since he was the founding emperor, he took advantage of the opportunity to establish the emperor.
, according to the Song Dynasty system, it seems that there are official titles and benefits. When participating in politics, most of them are so-called post-remuneration officials who have no official duties except to cause trouble. Casual officials can be completely discarded, and they will not become enemies of the national bureaucracy due to the reform and innovation of the official system.
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In addition to central agencies such as officials, households, rituals, soldiers, workers, and punishments, various roads, states, and counties also made a large reduction in the official ranks of the agencies that were too bloated and mixed in the Song Dynasty, and each period had to be reviewed by the central court.
In this case, each government agency will do its best to support everyone, so that no one will be idle. At least Xiao Tang believes that his confidants who had gathered together for Dayi are absolutely loyal to him, and he arranges for the government on the basis of refined officials and simple administration.
Xiao Tang believes that his trustworthy manpower is enough to control the situation in the central political arena.
However, during the conference, the most contradictory and complicated thing that Xiao Tang felt was: in terms of the division of labor in the bureaucracy and political institutions, could a relatively sound system of a certain dynasty be copied in a certain aspect? For example, could the Song Dynasty system be abolished?
The prime minister system is headed by Shangshu Zuo and Youpushe and has secondary ministers. It borrows from the prime minister system where the chief minister is the main minister and the cabinet ministers have the power to vote. They can consult the government but are not a power agency in name, and then form the administrative center.
The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty? In other words, because the military system of the Song Dynasty emphasized civility and suppressed military force, followed the principle of strong trunks and weak branches, internal and external maintenance, and the separation of soldiers and generals system, the country's military was weak and unable to solve border troubles, so the Ming Dynasty adopted the Ming Dynasty Guard Army
system, or reuse the Tang Dynasty government military system and the feudal military system?
Long before he realized that such a day would eventually come, Xiao Tang had already thought hard about it. However, Xiao Tang was not arrogant enough to think that he had the ability to create a perfect set of civil and military affairs out of thin air.
Bureaucratic system. Even if some systems can be adjusted according to his understanding of the reasons for the rise and fall of dynasties in the past, Xiao Tang found out after careful consideration: Even if he tried his best to designate a system, he would do his best to maintain it.
The country's prosperous bureaucracy will last for decades, even centuries. But one day, the system that was thought to be flawless at first involves the crown prince, civil affairs, military, internal affairs and other systems, but I'm afraid it has gone through a period of time.
In the future, it may even become the most fatal drawback of this political system.
Because in this era of feudal monarchy, even if it is a huge empire that is powerful for a while, there will be no strong and prosperous political system that can last forever and rule a country forever.
