Currently, there are nine ministers on duty in the imperial study room in the Tang Empire. The selection of these nine ministers on duty in the imperial study room has already formed a routine, that is, two from the military, one from the Hanlin Academy, four from the cabinet, and one from the Supervisory Office.
One person from the Grand Court.
In terms of the cabinet, they are Liu Bagou, the Minister of Taxation, the Minister of Commerce, and the Minister of Officials.
The above-mentioned nine people can generally be divided in this simple way, that is, Liu Balgou and the other eight heads of military and political departments, because in the past seven or eight years, the candidates for the ministers on duty in the imperial study room, except Liu Balgou, were all from
The person in charge of the above-mentioned institution.
Among these nine cabinet ministers, the presence of the president of the Supreme Court has always been very weak, and he is basically not involved in ordinary military and political affairs. His status as the duty minister in the royal study is more of a symbol.
However, Shi Wuyan is the censor of Zuodu of the Supervisory Yuan and the highest person in charge of the Supervisory Yuan. At the same time, because the Supervisory Yuan has the power to supervise all officials, Shi Wuyan's power is much greater than that of the president of the Great Court.
This is also the reason why Li Xuan asked Shi Wuyan to control the Judicial Personnel Bureau, because this organization is too important to appoint an ordinary senior official to take charge of it. Among the many ministers on duty in the Royal Study Room, only Shi
Wu Yan is more suitable.
With the establishment of the Judicial Personnel Bureau, the judicial reform charter also stipulates that local supervisory offices and courts will be under the direct jurisdiction of superior supervisory offices and courts, and will no longer be under the dual jurisdiction of local governments as in the past. This means that the governor
, the prefect and other top local officials will no longer have judicial power.
The top local leaders no longer have this power, so other local officials naturally can no longer interfere.
In addition to personnel adjustments, in terms of finance, the funds for the above three agencies will not be allocated directly with the various cabinet departments as in previous years, but will be independently funded by the judiciary.
Starting next year, judicial funds will not be merged into administrative funds in the fiscal expenditure budget. Instead, they will be listed separately and discussed and allocated alongside administrative funds, army military expenditures, navy military expenditures, royal family funds, and tax funds.
A complete separation of personnel and finances is a major measure for judicial independence. Together with hundreds of other measures, large and small, it is enough to completely separate the judicial system from the administrative system!
Li Xuan hopes that through this, the judiciary can completely avoid interference from the administrative department!
But this is just Li Xuan’s own wish. As for the specific effect after implementation, we have to wait and see!
This judicial independence system was actually created by Li Xuan himself based on many experiences in his previous life and combined with the Tang Empire itself. During the whole process, he also listened to the opinions of many ministers.
Such a system must have flaws. For example, after judicial independence and greatly increased powers, will the judicial system in turn interfere with the executive branch?
Similarly, the Supervisory Yuan in the judicial system supervises all officials, but what agency should supervise the Supervisory Yuan?
Although there is an internal affairs department within the Inspectorate, whether it can effectively complete anti-corruption activities within the judicial institution is also a question worthy of discussion.
However, no system can be perfect, and there will always be many flaws. For many things, Li Xuan could only choose the lesser of two evils, and then, like various reforms in later generations, cross the river by feeling the stones.
Try your best to find a reform path suitable for the Tang Empire.
He knew very well that the various systems of the Tang Empire could not imitate the feudal dynasties such as the Ming Dynasty, but they also could not directly copy the modern state systems of later generations.
The Tang Empire must find a path suitable for itself based on its own circumstances.
It doesn’t matter what kind of road this road is, what’s important is that it suits the situation of the Tang Empire.
According to later generations, it should be the development of a centralized monarchy with the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty.
Many of the existing policies and reforms of the Tang Empire actually served this goal, and many of them were very unreasonable even from the perspective of later generations.
For example, the education system!
If this kind of education system were left to future generations, it would definitely be scolded, because the government deliberately controls the number of people receiving secondary and higher education, which means blocking people's intelligence and running counter to popularizing education.
But Li Xuan insisted on doing this. The education system of the Tang Dynasty under his leadership was to turn education into a tool to maintain the rule of the Tang Empire, rather than a welfare.
Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, the cost of education was very high, especially the cost of higher education. This was to control the number of people with higher education. This was because the Tang Empire needed everyone with higher education to be used for its own benefit.
They would not be left outside and thus pose a threat to the rule of the empire.
To win over higher education groups requires costs, and you need to provide them with money, power and other benefits. To put it bluntly, it means turning these groups into the ruling class.
It was obviously impossible for the Tang Empire to allow too many people to become the ruling class.
The Tang Empire did not need too many ruling classes. Regardless of factors such as productivity, the most important thing is that there is no harm without comparison. Power that everyone can enjoy is not called privilege.
Therefore, it only takes a small number of highly educated people to become the ruling class, and the rest of the ordinary people to work honestly in the fields and become the ruled class.
Under this system, in order to prevent real talents from being buried due to the cost of education, Datang's education system also implemented a large-scale scholarship plan, with comprehensive scholarships from the most basic elementary schools to universities.
plan!
As long as you are a true genius and better than others, then the cost of education will not be an obstacle!
On one side, the high cost of education is believed to create obstacles for more people to enjoy education, while on the other side, a large-scale scholarship program is implemented to provide free learning opportunities for poor children with excellent academic performance.
This system may seem strange and difficult to understand, but in fact if you carefully analyze the education system of the United States in later generations, you will find that the education system of the United States and the education system of the Tang Dynasty are essentially similar.
There are only two groups of students in the United States who can go to institutions of higher learning: children from wealthy families and students with excellent academic performance!
As for ordinary people, they generally go to work or attend community colleges after high school. Ivy League schools have nothing to do with them.
And this kind of education system is actually very similar to the education systems in other countries. Even a group of our elites follow the same example and engage in quality education.
In order to make the people accept it willingly, they promote quality education: look at American children, they go to school and party and have sex every day, how happy they are.
So, you ordinary children have a hard time studying. Just play when you need to and let the books go to hell. You should let your children have a happy childhood.
Just study hard, go to a prestigious school, and do the dirty work of dedicating yourself to the country and the nation after you succeed in your studies. Just have children from our elite class.
You ordinary children, just eat, drink, have fun, and then work in factories.
After all, revolution does not distinguish between high and low. Whether we are officials or bosses, or you are workers or waiters, we are all contributing to the motherland.
In addition to these, if we continue to preach that children cannot just study, they should be allowed to learn piano, dance, painting, music and other talents. Well, it is best to open schools to independently recruit students in the future, and put social practice, talents, etc.
Also take part in the assessment.
Then let children from poor families compete with children from rich families on piano, dancing and other talents and social practices. It would be damned if children from ordinary families could compete with children from the elite class.
If we continue to centralize educational resources and conduct a multi-faceted campaign, I don’t believe that those poor and poor children can break out of this prison.
In recent years, this kind of thing has been publicized a lot, but there are still a group of fools who believe it. Please allow me to observe three seconds of silence for their children!
Fortunately, there are not many fools like this. If they were all fools, they would all believe these things.
Then there will be a very interesting situation. Children from ordinary families go out to work without finishing high school, technical secondary school, or even junior high school. If they are lucky, they may be able to attend a second-level university.
As for 985 and 211, sorry, they are not prepared for ordinary children!
Of course, this is an assumption after the situation worsens in the future!
Fortunately, most of the Chinese people today are not stupid, so they have been unswervingly implementing the imperial examination policy for thousands of years, which has greatly avoided the occurrence of such extreme situations.
In addition, these self-proclaimed elites have only learned one and a half tricks from the Americans. They have only learned to monopolize educational resources. They do not know how to use the scholarship system to recruit geniuses, and then continue to improve the strength of the ruling class. They have done this
, either a fool or so arrogant that he doesn’t take much of the world seriously.
Shameless like Americans, they are so nakedly engaged in elite education, but they still dare not close the door completely. In addition to monopolizing educational resources, they also use various scholarships to recruit talented people from disadvantaged backgrounds, leaving a small opening.
While giving hope to ordinary people, it also continuously replenishes the power of the ruling class.
Dynasties in the feudal era all knew how to establish an imperial examination system to continuously absorb talents from the middle and lower levels to supplement the upper levels.
To absorb talents from the lower class into the ruling class and make them a part of the ruling class is an old trick that has been played by human society for thousands of years. It is a pity that a group of fools in later generations still want to go against the trend and even want to
Playing with quality education, abolishing the imperial examination, and playing with independent enrollment, finally led to an extreme situation where a poor family cannot produce a noble son.
This is simply braving the disgrace of the world!
Fortunately, there are still many smart people in China, so the imperial examination system is still implemented unswervingly, insisting on unified examination and unified recruitment, and holding the final bottom line.
Thanks to the imperial examination, ordinary people like me have a chance to climb up!