Chapter 194 Preliminary discussion on the division of seals - the official system and Zhu Zanyi
Yunxi said: "Forget it, let's put aside the affairs of the Western Regions first, and let me tell you two about my regulations on the feudal official system."
Zhu Ming said: "Should we call Fourth Brother to discuss it together?"
Yunxi said: "Ah, although the fourth uncle is brave and good at fighting, after I heard what the fourteenth uncle said about the Western Regions, I feel that the fourth uncle is not suitable to be the ruler of the Western Regions. I want to choose another uncle or brother to be the ruler of the Western Regions."
The local ruler. But I haven’t thought about it yet, so I won’t talk about it for now.”
After Yunxi and others finished speaking, he was afraid that if the news spread out and Zhu Di would think about it, he said: "The fourth uncle is the eldest brother of all the kings today, and he will definitely seal a feudal kingdom in the future. But I don't think the fourth uncle will."
He is just suitable to be the ruler of the Western Regions."
At this time, Zhu Wei said: "Since Your Majesty wants to discuss the official system of the feudal country with your brothers, I will withdraw."
Yunxi didn't care whether he retreated or not. Since he didn't want to stay here, Yunxi said: "Then uncle 14, just go back."
Zhu Ping bowed and left.
Then Yunxi said to Zhu Zhen and Zhu Song: "My charter is based on the early Han Dynasty. The prince of the feudal country resets the palace of the left and right prime ministers. The left and right prime ministers are appointed by the capital, and their ranks are from the second rank. The left prime minister is a general, and the right prime minister is a general.
The king and prime minister are civil servants. The remaining official positions are appointed by the monarch."
"Imitate the six departments in the capital. But instead of calling them six departments, they are called six halls. The chief officer is called Pu She, from the third rank; the adjutant is called Ye Zhe Pu She, from the fourth rank."
"There are divisions under the hall, and the chief officer is called Dian Ling, who is the sixth rank; the adjutant is called Dian Cheng, who is the sixth rank."
"Local officials all share the official positions of the Ming Dynasty and are established from the prefecture."
Yunxi designed a system that systematically imitated the current central system of the Ming Dynasty, except for the left and right Wang Xiangfu. Note, it is the Wang Xiangfu, not the Wang Xiang.
It is meaningless to restore the official position of the king and prime minister alone, because the king can easily bypass these two positions. The palace of the king and chancellor must be restored so that the king and prime minister can have subordinate officials that he can appoint. Only then can he compete with the king and be considered independent.
Only with the power of the prime minister can it play the role of check and balance that Yun Xi hopes.
Why can't the Ming Dynasty's cabinet academicians be compared with the real prime minister? It's because they don't have independent prime minister power, and all power is subordinate to the emperor. The reason why the academicians look awesome is mainly because the emperor is too lazy and not smart enough.
Imperial bachelors like Jiajing did not have much power.
During the Western Han Dynasty, the prime minister had great power and could select, depose, punish and reward ministers without the emperor's consent.
Therefore, after Yunxi read "Three Kingdoms", he thought that Liu Bei did not trust Zhuge Liang very much, because after Liu Bei became emperor, he did not allow Zhuge Liang to open a mansion, but only allowed him to open a mansion when he went to Baidi City to ask for help. He did not open a mansion.
Prime Minister Zhuge Liang may not have as much actual power as Sili Colonel Zhang Fei.
The name of the officials of the Sixth Hall and the Sixth Division, Yunxi, is an ancient name that I found out from "Hanshu", "Historical Records", "Houhanshu", "Jinshu", and "Three Kingdoms" to show that this is a retrospect, not an innovation.
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After Yunxi finished speaking, he asked, "Do you two uncles have any questions about the official system?"
Zhu Ming said with both joy and worry: "Your Majesty, you have promised us so many official positions at once. Where can we find these many people as officials?"
Yunxi said: "That is your own business. If you like the official of the current court, tell me, I may let him go. But I won't let too many people go."
"As for other officials, you can find them yourself. Whether you are looking for talented people among the people yourself, or you have issued some "Order for Talent Searching" and asked talented people to come to you on their own initiative, you can do it yourself. If everything is done, I will give it to you.
Arrangement, then why should I make you king?" Yunxi's last words were joking.
Then Yunxi said solemnly: "However, although I allow many of your appointed officials to go out, the ones you have granted are all border areas, and there are many places where local officials are located. There should be no need for these many officials at the beginning.
Officials, in addition to the left and right Wang Xiangfu, first set up the shelves of the sixth hall, which may not be needed by the departments below."
"In addition, when you officially seal the country in the future, it will be different from being a prince now. In the future, you will be the king of a country, and you will be responsible for all the big and small things in the country. But now you can take care of it if you want to, and just don't care if you don't want to.
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"If you mishandle it and cause a catastrophe in the country, I will find another uncle to replace you. In that case, not only will you lose the country, but I will also impose other punishments."
Yunxi stared at Zhu Zhen and said: "Uncle Eighteenth King, especially in the Burmese Xuanwei Envoy where you are, there are many taboos there. If you don't pay attention, you will violate taboos. You must pay attention. For those who do not accept the king's transformation,
Of course we have to attack, but we don’t want to waste our military power in vain.”
"The people there are less taboo about the northeastern area that Uncle Twenty has granted a seal to."
Of course, this is not just the reason why Yunxi specifically warned Zhu Qi. Historically, Zhu Qi was one of the first four kings to be captured. Even if Yun Qi exaggerated, it shows that Zhu Qi is not so clean.
Otherwise, if there were so many vassal kings in the country, why would they attack him? He was not Zhu Di's brother.
If Zhu Chu hadn't been quite capable and had not been granted the title of Yunnan, Yunxi would not have allowed him to become the king.
Yunxi added: "That's all I can think of now. Is there anything else?"
Zhu Ming said: "The Burmese Propaganda Department is too remote, and like the local officials in the Northeast, there are no people who have been exiled or doctors sent there, and there is not even a Han Chinese on weekdays. If you want to shock Western Yunnan,
It must be Dali Mansion!"
Zhu Song also said: "Your Majesty, what does Kaiyuan City have to do? Why don't you give me the entire Liaodong?"
Yunxi first said to Zhu Song: "No! Uncle Wang's feudal kingdom is only Kaiyuan City and the area to the north. Liaodong cannot be granted to Uncle Wang. However, the guards in Liaodong can be temporarily assigned to Uncle Wang."
What a joke, how could Yunxi grant the entire Northeast to Zhu Song? He also planned to grant at least one more king in the Northeast, so Liaodong could not be granted to him.
Yunxi turned around and said to Zhu Zhen: "I didn't think it through properly. I can't just give you the Burma Xuanwei Envoy. But if Dali is given to Uncle Wang, Meng Yang, the Xuanwei Envoy to the west of Dali, will be given to you."
The Sichuan Ping Burmese Envoy Department, Meng Gen Mansion, Jin Teeth Military and Civilian Command Department (Yongchang Military and Civilian Mansion), Meng Ding Mansion, Shunning Mansion, and Menghua Prefecture will all be granted to you, which is equivalent to sealing off half of Yunnan."
Zhu Ming smiled and said: "But there are few Han people in these places, only Dali has more people."
Yunxi was not particularly opposed. Yunnan has never been able to raise troops to defeat the central government here, let alone half of Yunnan. So he said: "I will think about it again and tell you in a few days."
Seeing that they were going to talk again, Yunxi said: "For other matters, you go back and discuss it with the palace officials. Come and talk to me after you have the regulations."
Zhu Chu and Zhu Song still had many questions to ask, but after Yunxi said this, they resigned.
Yunxi then called Zhu Zanyi, the king of Jingjiang, who was in Beijing.
Zhu Zanyi was only seventeen years old at this time, three years younger than Yunxi. When he saw Yunxi, he said: "I have met Your Majesty."
Yunxi said: "Why be so polite? Just call me your uncle."
Yes, Zhu Zhanyi is the only one among the current princes who is younger than Yunxi. Therefore, Zhu Zhanyi is not as reserved as other princes and said: "What's the matter, uncle?"
Yunxi smiled and said: "Zanyi, are you not married yet?"
Zhu Zanyi said: "Yes, uncle Huang."
Yunxi said: "Now my uncle has ordered you not to get married in private. My uncle will arrange a good marriage for you in the future."
Zhu Zanyi looked at Yunxi's expression and felt that what he said was obviously not a bad thing, but why was his expression so weird? But Zhu Zanyi could only nod and said: "Yes, uncle." Anyway, he was still young, so it was okay without a concubine. Anyway, he could only nod.
