If Li Xuan wants to establish judicial independence, the people who support him the most are naturally the people in the Supervisory Yuan, especially Shi Wuyan, the current left capital censor of the Supervisory Yuan, who supports it with all his hands and feet.
Because of the complete independence of the judiciary, this means that the Inspectorate can completely get rid of the influence of the cabinet. Therefore, his political status will be much higher, and his words in the imperial study will have greater weight, rather than what it is now.
Awkward.
At present, the core of power in the Tang Dynasty is basically concentrated in the imperial study room. Although there is no clear definition, it is undeniable that the imperial study room in the Tang Dynasty has become an institution similar to the cabinet of the former Ming Dynasty.
He has a lot of great power, not only limited to administrative power, but also military power, because there are also military representatives among the duty ministers and walking ministers in the Royal Study Room.
Currently, the person who represents the Army in the Imperial Study is the real boss of the Army, Hao Bainian. However, like Lei Wan, he does not join as the Minister of Operations Department of the Privy Council, but as the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council.
As for General Lei Wan, he officially resigned from the imperial study this year, and also resigned from the position of director of the Department of Operations, and became deputy envoy to the Privy Council.
Deputy Privy Council envoy, this is a position specially assigned by Li Xuan to many army bosses. It is currently the highest-level position in the army in the Tang Empire. Only those with the rank of general can hold it.
However, this position is more like an honorary position. If there is no other assignment, then it is just a false position.
So far, the number of generals who have served as deputy envoys to the Privy Council has reached nine. According to Li Xuan's arrangement, the number of deputy envoys to the Privy Council will basically remain at more than five or ten for a long time to come.
The following scale.
In the future, Li Xuan also decided that he would no longer transfer generals from various ministries under the Privy Council to serve in the imperial study, but would only select them from the deputies of the Privy Council. This can be regarded as an adjustment to the current army's job system.
After all, in the past, the director of the Operations Department like Lei Wan was directly appointed as the Minister of the Royal Study. Instead, the truly powerful generals like Hao Bainian were put aside. Although it was said that the authority of the powerful generals could be controlled, over the years, Hao Bainian and other military bosses
They all stayed in Jinling City honestly and would not even leave Jinling City on their own initiative without an imperial edict.
Of course, they were doing this to save their lives and wealth and avoid arousing Li Xuan's suspicion, and Li Xuan also saw it.
As the saying goes, repaying favors, Li Xuan still has to reward his ministers for their loyalty. It is impossible for them to directly lead the troops, because in the current military system of the Tang Empire, generals with the rank of lieutenant general are commanded.
One army, and in the Tang Empire, one army was basically responsible for an entire war zone, and there was no need for a higher-level command structure.
At least not yet!
In order to allow the new generation of generals below to gain promotion opportunities and maintain upward channels, and also to control the troops, it is impossible for Li Xuan to delegate generals at the general level to the field troops.
Unless there is a major battle in the future that requires the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of people, generals at the general level will be sent to the front lines to command the army.
But this situation is estimated to be unlikely to occur in the next few decades!
In this way, how to arrange these outstanding generals is actually a troublesome matter. Those who can arrange these generals also have the positions of ministers of the Privy Council. Above the ministers, Li Xuan has specially held the position of deputy envoy of the Privy Council.
Then, people were selected from among the deputies of the Privy Council to join the imperial study, thus forming a whole new high-level promotion system.
Of course, not every general can join the imperial study room. There are still only a few people who can join the imperial study room, but at least it gives them a hope.
In any case, every minister who can enter the Imperial Study Room now is already a top figure in the Tang Empire, both civil and military.
But even within the imperial study room, although the ministers on duty have equal status in name, there are still differences in reality, and most of these people's status comes from the institutions behind them.
Among them, the one with the highest political status is naturally Liu Bagou. His power does not come from his part-time job in the Ministry of Agriculture. In fact, he does not care about the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture. His power comes more from his prestige as a veteran of the two dynasties.
Next up are the representatives of the army and navy, namely Army General Hao Bainian and Navy General Ouyang Gui.
Ouyang Gui succeeded Bao Yifen as the minister on duty in the Royal Study Room last year. Unlike General Lei Wan who did not retire but became deputy envoy to the Privy Council, Bao Yifen retired directly and became a reserve officer.
This was not because Li Xuan was dissatisfied with him, or because he had some political problems, but because his body could no longer hold up. Bao Yifen, who had long served as the duty minister in the imperial study room and the director of the Military Order Department under the Naval Command, had a very good job.
I was so busy that last year I finally couldn’t hold it any longer.
When he was less than fifty years old, he became bedridden when he fell ill, and finally had no choice but to retire from active service and transfer to reserve service.
Over the years, there are actually many generals like Bao Yifen who have retired due to age, injuries and other reasons or have become civil servants. After all, time is ruthless. It is now the sixteenth year of Xuanping. In the early years, he followed Li Xuan
The ministers who conquered the country, even people like Hao Bainian, were only in their twenties back then, but now they are in their forties.
As for Liu Bagou, he was nearly fifty years old back then, and he is already over sixty years old now.
In other words, Liu Bagou's body is still strong, so he can still hold on, but he won't be able to work for a few more years.
Although many old ministers have gradually left the core and senior leadership of the empire in recent years, this is not yet the climax. Li Xuan estimates that in another five or six years, it will be difficult to see the old ministers around him again.
There is no other reason, time makes people grow old!
They can defeat the powerful Qian Ming, follow Li Xuan to conquer this huge country, and promote the Tang Empire to continuously expand to the surrounding areas, but they still cannot defeat time!
Over the years, all the representatives of the army and navy in the imperial study have completed their rotation.
However, Hao Bainian and Ouyang Gui, who are new to the imperial study, are just like their predecessors. They stick to their duties in the imperial study and keep in mind the principle of separation of military and political affairs. As long as the matter does not involve military affairs, they will basically not make any remarks.
Opinion.
Although they speak with great weight, most of the time they don't speak.
In addition to the military representatives, there are three famous names in the cabinet: the Minister of Taxation, the Minister of Personnel, and the Minister of Commerce. Among them, Qian Zuili has been the Minister of Taxation for many years. Although he is often talked about for impeachment, he has
I have always been sitting on Diaoyutai.
At the same time, it was also because he controlled the tax department, and the tax department was its own system. In the imperial study room, except for Liu Bagou, he basically didn't give much face to anyone else.
Although the heads of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Commerce have been changed several times, each new Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Commerce are not ordinary people.
In comparison, on the contrary, the three people, namely, the Censor of Zuodu of the Supervisory Yuan, the Dean of the Great Court, and the Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, held relatively little weight in speaking in the imperial study.
The bachelors of the Hanlin Academy speak lightly because they dare not speak out, because the Hanlin Academy is too special and dares not easily get involved in large-scale struggles.
As for the Inspectorate and the Supreme Court, no one listens to their words.
There was no way. Although the two institutions, the Inspectorate and the Supreme Court, were nominally independent, they were too constrained and their confidence was not enough. Naturally, no one listened.
But if the judiciary is completely independent, then the Supervisory Office and the Supreme Court can be completely freed from the constraints of other cabinet departments. This will be reflected in the imperial study and make Shi Wuyan speak more forcefully.
Therefore, judicial independence is a good thing for the two institutions, the Supervisory Yuan and the Supreme Court, and it is an even better thing for Shi Wuyan.
But for other agencies of the cabinet, this is not a good thing, because this almost means that the cabinet will completely lose its influence on the Inspectorate!
However, while the Inspectorate was jumping up and down, Liu Bagou, the actual chief assistant of the cabinet, thanked guests behind closed doors without any objection at all, which was confusing to many people.
When you don't understand, you will naturally not take sides easily. Even the Ministry of Personnel and Finance, which are expected to suffer the greatest losses in this reform, have become unusually silent.
They are all waiting for the Holy Emperor's opinion on this letter!
Should it be directly rejected or approved?
Should it be kept without publication, should it be forwarded to the imperial study room for approval, or should a relevant meeting be held directly on this matter?
Every different choice of the Holy Emperor represents a different direction, and even the same choice often represents different meanings.
As a minister, the most important thing now is to judge the intentions of the Holy Emperor, and then follow the steps of the Holy Emperor Li Xuan!
If you make a mistake, you will be very unlucky!
Li Xuan did not let the ministers wait too long, and quickly issued instructions. The contents of the instructions in red pen were very brief, and they only contained three words that seemed to be very ordinary: "I understand."
Then forward this excerpt to the imperial study room for circulation.
These three words may seem ordinary, but in this book they are extraordinary.
If it is just an ordinary excerpt, such a comment is basically meaningless. It is nothing more than saying that I already know the matter and do whatever I need to do. It is a normal comment. Li Xuan reviews so many excerpts every day.
Five out of ten books are marked by these three words.
But on such an important note, such comments are enough for people to find many unusual meanings!
What does it mean?
That is, the Holy Emperor did not directly criticize the book, nor did he say that he had read it and transferred it to the imperial study room for processing, or directly agreed with it. Instead, he said an ambiguous "I understand" and asked the minister on duty in the imperial study room to circulate it!