The first thousand one hundred and sixteen chapters alternate between old and new
Many people want to remove Qian Zuoli from power. In fact, it is not just Qian Zuoli. Behind every minister on duty now, there are a bunch of people watching eagerly, wanting to kill them and then take the position himself.
There is no way, so many ministers want to be in power. The local chief envoys want to be governors, the governors want to return to the capital and serve as a minister, the right minister wants to be a left minister, and the left minister wants to be a minister.
Become a minister, and a minister in an ordinary department wants to become a minister in a powerful department such as the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Taxation, and the Ministry of Commerce, or to become a top leader in the Inspectorate or the Hanlin Academy. All they want is to eventually enter the imperial study room.
, became the minister on duty, and became a highly respected minister.
At present, although the Tang Dynasty already has the age limit for becoming an official, it stipulates that the age for becoming an official is 60 years old for those below the third rank, and 65 years old for those above the third rank.
However, this age limit for becoming an official is not very effective at present, because the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty are generally young. The earliest founding heroes represented by Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu are now no more than
Just over fifty years old.
As for Qian Zuoli, his age is even younger. He is not even fifty years old this year. To be precise, Qian Zuoli is only forty-five years old this year.
If he really enters the official career at the age of sixty-five, it will still be twenty years later.
But is it possible that Qian Zuoli stayed in the position of minister on duty for twenty years?
Impossible!
Qian Zuili has been the minister on duty for six years. If he serves for another twenty years, it will be twenty-six years!
For such a long time, let alone Qian Zuili, even Liu Bagou, who had the founding, support, Conglong and other people who were almost the first heroes of the Tang Dynasty, would not be able to secure the position of minister on duty for twenty years.
For six years!
It is impossible for high-level personnel to always be the same people. As time goes by, whether it is due to lack of ability or to maintain normal personnel rotation, Li Xuan will make changes to the personnel.
In recent years, he has basically maintained the rhythm of continuously updating the ministers on duty and the ministers on duty.
In this process, Bai Yunqi, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, the three earliest ministers of Conglong, all retired from high positions. After they withdrew from the front-line political arena, Li Xuan did not treat them badly. Bai Yunqi was arranged
He became a director of Datang Western Company and gave him a lot of shares. Qian Mengjiu was unwilling to continue working in politics, nor was he willing to use his remaining talents in state-owned enterprises.
This person can be considered to have experienced the peak of his life, so after he retired from politics, he returned to his hometown in Xingquan Prefecture to retire. After returning to his hometown, he opened a private school to satisfy his early desire to be a private school teacher.
It’s not just civil servants who are being replaced, but military generals as well!
In the military system, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren and other veteran generals from the Huang Zhushan period have all retired from active service, except for Chen Butcher, a single figure.
In fact, even before the unification, Fang Dongquan and the others had already retreated to the second line. After hanging out in the Privy Council for a few years, and taking advantage of the empire to regain Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula and completely complete the unification, Li Xuan was in the winter of the eighth year of Xuanping.
A large-scale ceremony was held to reward the heroes.
In the awarding ceremony in the eighth year of Xuanping, Li Xuan created five new dukes, twenty-six marquises, fifty-seven earls, in addition to more than 300 viscounts and more than 600 barons.
Together with the original sealed nobles, this brings the number of people with noble titles in the empire to over a thousand.
However, most of the more than a thousand nobles hold ordinary reduced hereditary titles, and since Baron is already the lowest, there is no way to inherit the title.
In other words, after a few decades, the number of nobles in the empire will definitely decrease by hundreds.
In the end, the overall number of nobles should remain around five hundred.
As for truly hereditary and non-replaceable noble titles, Li Xuan has only awarded fifteen titles so far!
And currently, the hereditary knighthood granted by the Tang Dynasty is different from the traditional hereditary knighthood, because the hereditary title does not always retain the original title, but adopts the method of reducing the hereditary title to the baron.
Decrease your title, keep the title of baronet, and retire with the country!
This is the new definition of hereditary disregard set by Li Xuan himself!
Therefore, if a duke is granted a hereditary title, his descendants will not always be able to inherit the title of duke, but they will be able to inherit the title of baron after being reduced to baron.
Of course, the founding heroes will always receive preferential treatment!
The hereditary system only retains the title of baronet, but it is naturally impossible for Li Xuan to let a few real heroes disappear from everyone in two or three generations. People will work hard to rebel with you, just for the sake of glory and wealth, not to mention, these nobles
Most of them are military nobles, and Li Xuan also needs to maintain the status of military nobles in the country, thereby maintaining the strength of the empire's military power.
Therefore, there are still some people who have received special preferential treatment that will be reduced after two or three generations!
For example, Hao Bainian received this kind of preferential treatment. As the general with almost the greatest military merit in the empire, he officially obtained the rank of Army General in the eighth year of Xuanping and became the first general in the Empire. However, after receiving this rank, he immediately applied to retire from active service.
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There is no way, no matter how great his achievements are, if he doesn't want to die and enjoy the glory and wealth, he will definitely have to live with his tail between his legs after the unification war.
For the sake of political influence, Li Xuan would naturally not approve his application for retirement. However, it was impossible to lead troops. At that time, Li Xuan was not the only general who was preparing to be promoted, so Li Xuan subsequently
Xuan expanded the Privy Council and established deputy envoys to the Privy Council, but the number of deputy envoys was not clearly specified.
Hao Bainian and the field army generals who were promoted one after another, such as Li Chunjing, all became deputy envoys of the Privy Council, and then returned to Jinling City to enjoy their blessings!
As for the hard work of fighting outside, there is no need to bother these military bosses. There are a large number of newly promoted major generals and lieutenant generals waiting to make contributions.
As compensation for returning to Jinling and relinquishing their military power, Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing and others became imperial dukes, and then received hereditary privileges with reduced rank for three generations. Hereditary privileges are not equivalent to these two great benefits!
During the Unification War, the generals represented by the bandits of the Huangzhushan era, represented by Fang Dongquan, gradually came to the front line.
The Huangzhushan era represented by Hao Bainian emerged and rose rapidly during the Guizhou and Guangxi campaigns, and became the core generals of the Imperial Army. These founding heroes also successively launched the front line after the Unification War, giving up their positions to
It describes the new generation of generals who emerged one after another during the middle and late stages of the Unification War.
Relatively speaking, the transition from old to new in the military is relatively smooth!
Of course this is due to Li Xuan's strong control over the army, but it is also related to Chinese tradition!
The allusion of rabbits dying and dogs cooking, birds disappearing and bows hidden is known to every founding general. Many generals had already started planning for their retreat in the late stages of the Unification War.
When Hao Bainian led the Third Army to capture Hebei and conquer Youzhou, he had already begun to write letters requesting to be relegated to the second line.
After the Unification War, when faced with Li Xuan's imperial edict to transfer him back to Jinling City to serve as deputy envoy to the Privy Council, instead of being disgusted by this obvious promotion and actual deprivation of military power, he was glad that he had saved his life.
, and also protected his future prospects and the glory of his family.
He was not like Fang Dongquan, who was kicked out of active service because he wanted to cling to power.
Hao Bainian was retreating in order to advance. He gave up his military power and returned to Jinling City. However, he was still the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and an active army general. If there was a big war in the future, a boss like him would definitely be able to lead the army again.
Nothing is better than retiring from active service!
Hao Bainian is only in his thirties this year. He is still young. He doesn't want to go home and retire like this, let alone be stabbed because of his great achievements.
Hao Bainian is a smart man, and others are not stupid either!
Therefore, after the end of the Unification War, Li Xuan's replacement of old and new senior leaders in the army was relatively smooth. A large number of people with outstanding military exploits and who could not make a living in the field troops were recalled by Li Xuan to Jinling City, and some were arranged as the Privy Council.
Deputy envoys, and some were assigned to serve in various departments of the Privy Council.
Eight years after Xuanping, the specifications of the ministries of the Army Privy Council and the Navy Headquarters were further upgraded, and the ministers of each department were given the rank of admiral. This admiral rank can be used to arrange these people.
The transition between the old and the new in the military has been smooth, and although the veterans have retreated to the second line, they are still active in the military and their influence is still considerable.
But the transition between the old and the new on the civil servant side was not so smooth.
Compared with military generals, who are influenced by the traditional factors of keeping everything under control, civil servants do not have much such influence. On the contrary, many civil servants feel that after the world is unified, they can display their talents.
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During the Unification War, the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty, like many civil servants in the founding stage of the country, were marginal roles and were not taken seriously.
But after the country was unified, unifying the world turned into governing the world. At this time, the role of civil servants was greatly reflected.
Many civil servants are waiting for the unification of the world to display their talents and gain glory and wealth. How can they be willing to take a back seat just after unification?
But this is just the idea of civil servants, but Li Xuan's idea is different.
Li Xuan believes that in the early founding stage of the People's Republic of China, the quality of the civil service class was really not very good. The civil servants who emerged in the Huangzhushan era, represented by Liu Bagou, were really not very good. In the early days, they were still poor.
They could keep up, but in the later stages, their abilities were no longer able to meet the needs of governing the world.
After all, there is a big difference between governing a country with a population of more than 150 million and governing a bandit den.
Therefore, in the past two days, Li Xuan has always wanted to complete the replacement of old and new civil servants!
However, although Li Xuan did this, Li Xuan's approach was relatively stable. He did not want all the early civil servants to be ousted. That would not only chill the old ministers, but more importantly, it would have a political impact.
If it is too large, it will easily cause all kinds of turbulence that Li Xuan does not want to see.
Now that the empire has just been unified for two years, it is a time when it needs to recuperate and develop vigorously, but there is not much energy to focus on political struggles, so Li Xuan must control the situation.
What happened with Qian Zuili was the result of his deliberate control!
The people below have long been dissatisfied with Qian Zuoli. To a certain extent, splitting the tax department is also a prelude to their attempt to remove Qian Zuili. However, many civil servants probably have not been able to understand Li Xuan until now.