Chapter 1301 Understand is to understand, understand is to understand
Today's officials continue to make excuses, and the things they are discussing have changed from the Jiangbei corruption case at the beginning to the Supervisory Office's poor performance. All cabinet ministries are also responsible, and almost all agencies have been sprayed.
, and finally evolved into a dispute between administration and justice.
Some say that the executive interferes with the judiciary, and some say that the judiciary and the executive are not separated, leading to administrative chaos. In short, all kinds of messy things are mentioned.
And many of them are old problems that have existed in the Tang Empire for many years, and they are even stubborn diseases. In the past, everyone knew about them, but they would not talk about them. After all, family scandals still have to be covered up.
But now, all the rubbish things have been brought out, and the commotion is getting bigger and bigger. Liu Bagou, who is the Grand Scholar of Zhongji Palace, the Minister on Duty in the Royal Study Room, the Minister of Agriculture, and the Marquis of the Empire, also feels it.
Tricky.
Liu Bagou was the prime minister when the Tang Empire was first established. Later, after the reform of the official system, he became a bachelor of Zhongji Palace, a minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and a first-class official. For more than ten years, although he was not called the chief minister, he was actually not named the chief minister.
On the other hand, he has always acted as a first-in-command.
However, although he has been in a high position due to his early achievements, Liu Bagou is also a smart man. He also knows what it means to be a master with great achievements. Therefore, after the empire unified China, he has rarely been actually responsible for anything.
Well, although Liu Bago had concurrently served as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Minister of Agriculture, eight years after Xuanping, Liu Bago basically ignored specific matters. Nowadays, all matters of the Ministry of Agriculture, large and small, are handed over to the two ministers.
He, Liu Bagou, basically stayed in the imperial study room every day and did not participate in detailed ministry affairs. In the imperial study room, he did not deal with detailed affairs.
More often than not, he acts as a leader, mediating conflicts between departments, or acts as a bridge between the cabinet and the Holy Emperor. When it is inconvenient for the Holy Emperor to speak directly to various departments, he stands up for the Holy Emperor.
The emperor solves the problem.
But when it comes to specific matters, he will never stand out!
In addition, another very important point is that he cares more about the loyalty of other ministers to Li Xuan than Li Xuan. When it comes to etiquette issues, when a minister fails in front of Li Xuan, Liu Bagou will not care at all.
Don't hesitate to stand up and solve the problem.
In other words, Liu Bagou's original intention has never changed in the past ten years or so, which is to safeguard the imperial power of the Tang Empire!
Well, to put it bluntly, Liu Bagou is not actually defending Li Xuan, but the imperial power of the Tang Empire. If one day Li Xuan dies, Liu Bagou will support Li Xuan without hesitation.
The son ascended the throne as emperor, and then assisted him to become a new generation of holy kings.
Although Liu Bagou never said anything about this, Li Xuan could see it, but he didn't have much objection to it. On the contrary, he still admired Liu Bagou's purity!
In the vast officialdom of the empire, one would be hard-pressed to find an official with such pure ideals like Liu Bagou!
Therefore, Liu Bagou's persistence is why he has been firmly seated as a bachelor for the past ten years and has become the only person in the Tang Empire who is a full-time civil servant.
From the founding of the Tang Empire to the present, there have been a total of three first-grade officials, namely Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, and Wang Wenhua. The first-grade officials of these three people all come from their titles of bachelors.
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In the Tang Empire, the rank of Zhengyipin can only be obtained through two ways, one is a bachelor, and the second is the three gongs and three orphans. As for the title of aristocrat, this thing is not equivalent to the rank, and the Tang Dynasty does not have it.
It is fixed that nobility means superior rank, one level higher in official rank, etc. Nobility is a separate honor system and has nothing to do with administrative grade or military rank.
And Li Xuan is relatively stingy. Over the years, the Three Gongs and Three Solitaries have never been awarded, not even once, and the bachelor has only awarded the award to three people, that is, Liu Bagou and other three people, and these three people are also
Obtained during the Huangzhushan era.
As for the others, Li Xuan felt that they still needed to work harder if they wanted to obtain the highest-level civil official titles in the Tang Empire, such as Grand Bachelor and San Gong San Gu.
During the establishment of the Tang Empire, to be honest, apart from Liu Bagou, the other civil servants did not contribute much. The army played the main role. In addition, Li Xuan also deliberately suppressed the civil service group to ensure that the empire's military power was not strong.
It will weaken too early, continue to attract high-quality talents, and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.
This is why Li Xuan was generous to the military generals, but generally suppressed civilian officials.
Liu Bagou was naturally aware of Li Xuan's policy, and he did not understand it, but this did not prevent him from wholeheartedly defending Li Xuan and supporting Li Xuan's decision-making.
Liu Bagou has been in a high position for many years and has seen a lot of disputes and turmoil in the court, but large-scale political turmoil like this year still makes Liu Bagou quite worried.
He knew that the Holy Emperor was planning a big game, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Well, that's not important. What's important is that he feels that if he continues to act like this without control, it may have too great an impact. Although the debate is still limited to the court, if it continues like this, it will definitely spread throughout the whole country.
The official group, and then the entire gentry group, the entire gentry group knows it, which basically means that the whole world knows it.
And this will have a very bad impact.
Liu Bagou, who was a little worried, accompanied Li Xuan on a tour of the back garden of the palace, which was about to be completed, and asked a few indirect questions. He didn't want to stop anything, he just wanted to know where things would go next so that he could prepare in advance!
In response to Liu Bagou's insinuation, Li Xuan raised his head and looked at this person, then said with a normal smile: "Yes, it seems that the people below have also put their heart and soul into it. This flower garden is well maintained, but even though the flowers are blooming,
Yet elegant and generous!”
Li Xuan said, pointing to a large flowerbed in front of him, which was planted with various flowers and plants. Although it was autumn, there were still many plants and flowers that remained evergreen and even bloomed.
Li Xuan continued: "It's just that there are evergreens all year round, withering yellow in autumn and winter, flowers in spring and summer, and snowy winter plums. There is certainly a unique charm in the mixture, but my dear, do you think this flower garden is too messy?
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After listening to this, Liu Bagou looked at the flowerbed in front of him. It was not easy to see such a beautiful flowerbed in autumn.
But while watching, I was thinking about what Li Xuan just said!
After thinking for a while, he replied: "What your Majesty said is true. The universe is in order, Yin and Yang have their own way. The order cannot be messed up, and the way cannot be released. However, this flower garden is a bit messy. If it is repaired, it will be evergreen in one place and the same in all seasons."
Place the wood on one side and flower on one side, it will definitely look more pleasing to the eye!"
After hearing this, Li Xuan nodded slightly, stopped talking, and continued to move forward.
Some of the secretaries who were waiting at the back were thoughtful after listening, while others looked confused, and some also looked at the flower garden, unable to help imagining what Liu Bagou said in their minds.
If you sort out all the flowers and plants in the flower bed and then plant them individually, it would look terrible.
But why did the Holy Emperor still nod?
Could it be that the aesthetics of these two people are different from ordinary people?
Although the accompanying people are all secretaries from the Hanlin Academy Secretariat, first-class secretaries and second-class secretaries, as for the third-class secretaries, they are not qualified to accompany them. Logically speaking, their positions are also very important, and they can come into contact with a large number of people.
secrets, and all of them belong to young officials who have been specially trained.
However, not everyone knows the inside story of the matter. Those first-class secretaries understood it because they knew more or less what the Holy Emperor was thinking. However, although they could guess a thing or two, they were all mouthy.
Keep it closed, you won't say it to anyone.
As for the second-class secretaries, they naturally have no access to high-level secrets, and it is difficult to guess what the Holy Emperor is thinking, so naturally they cannot understand.
Those who understood understood it, and those who didn't understood naturally didn't understand. Naturally, Li Xuan was too lazy to explain anything.
Judging from Liu Bagou's reaction, Liu Bagou understood it and expressed his own opinion!
Liu Bagou's opinion is that he supports Li Xuan as always!
As for right or wrong, that doesn't matter, at least not to Liu Bagou.
After getting his answer, Liu Bagou did not ask any other questions, but accompanied Li Xuan specifically to look at the back garden of the palace!
This back garden actually has another name, and that is the Imperial Garden. However, only one side of the Imperial Garden is being built now, and it is part of the palace reconstruction project.
The reconstruction project of the imperial palace started very early. Nominally speaking, the construction of the imperial palace began with Jinling City as the capital, and the reconstruction was based on the theme of the imperial palace of the former Ming Dynasty.
But because the Qianming Palace was too badly damaged, it would be too expensive to rebuild it as it is. In addition, a very important point is that Li Xuan does not like the traditional palace, which is too depressing. Living in this seemingly grand place all year round
, but in fact, in a palace with deep darkness, people will go crazy.
Relatively speaking, Li Xuan prefers to live in the existing Royal Courtyard, because although the predecessor of the Royal Courtyard was a large mansion, after the reconstruction, it actually turned into a huge garden with relatively few buildings.
Li Xuan prefers the living environment.
In fact, this was not Li Xuan's choice alone. From ancient times to the present, few emperors liked to live in deep palaces every day. They all liked to live in the royal gardens whenever they had the opportunity.
Therefore, when the palace was rebuilt, although the front hall needed to reflect the orthodoxy of the Tang Dynasty, various traditional halls were needed, but the living area at the back, although the overall layout was also arranged according to the central axis, was not in the Li Xuan
Under the request of the emperor, the rear part of the harem adopts a garden-style layout.
If anyone dares to get him a large area of densely packed and eerie houses, Li Xuan will dare to send him directly to a deserted island in Nanyang that has not yet been developed and is inhabited by cannibals.