Li Xuan valued Chen Lifu because he was capable and talented, and he seemed to be a traditional scholar. He also handled things relatively steadily. Although he was more aggressive in his early years, he was transferred from the tax department and then went to the local government.
When I took up my job, I gradually became more stable.
But when he became the governor of Guangdong, he already had the style of everyone.
Overall, Li Xuan feels that this person is relatively calm, and some of his political ideas tend to be conservative. This is also the case with him in the Ministry of Commerce in recent years.
Therefore, in Li Xuan's mind, this person should not be a reformist, but a conservative.
There are everyone in the imperial study room, including the reformists. Li Xuan brought Chen Lifu into the imperial study room. In addition to his ability and talent, he also felt that this man's views were relatively conservative and could effectively balance the situation in the imperial study room.
But now it seems that Chen Lifu is quite radical, even more radical than those reformists.
Li Xuan was quite surprised when he opened his mouth to expand the tiered agricultural tax rate and closed his mouth to set a minimum wage and limit working hours.
He knew that Chen Lifu was a gentry, and the Chen family in Jinlingdong was a family of officials. In recent years, these gentry and official families have generally begun to transform, and most of the family wealth has existed in the form of various enterprises in industry and commerce.
The Chen family is also one of them.
However, this Chen Lifu, why did he cut his own person with the first knife?
Even Li Xuan now doesn't know Chen Lifu's true thoughts!
Ever since he became an official in the fifth year of Xuanping, Chen Lifu had a dream, which was to become an important city in the imperial court, enter the Imperial Study Room, and then assist the Holy Emperor to create a prosperous age of Xuanping.
This dream lasted for thirty-one years, and he sacrificed too much for it.
Now he has successfully entered the imperial study room and has become one of the few ministers on duty in the imperial study room in the world. To a certain extent, he is less than ten thousand and more than ten thousand people.
At this time, more than half of his dream has been realized, and the next half is to create a peaceful and prosperous age.
In order to promote peace and prosperity, what does it mean if your own property is damaged?
What he wants is not family honor or the interests of the gentry class, he just wants peace and prosperity!
What he wants is that when future generations talk about the Tang Dynasty and the Xuanping period, the first person they will think of may be the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, but he hopes that the second person they will think of is Chen Lifu!
In his opinion, the Tang Empire is still imperfect and has many flaws, and these flaws are what he needs to repair one by one.
Expanding the tiered agricultural tax rate, setting a minimum wage and limiting working hours were just a stepping stone that Chen Lifu used to test the attitude of the Holy Emperor.
Chen Lifu's thoughts are actually incomprehensible to many people. The only person in this world who can understand him is probably his wife, and even if his wife understands Chen Lifu, she can only understand him through his
You can learn a thing or two about the cold bamboo paintings in the entire study.
His cold bamboo paintings always depict lonely bamboos standing proudly in desperate situations.
In the vast snow field, a green bamboo stands proudly on the snowfield. No matter how strong wind blows up the snow, the green bamboo remains firm and motionless!
But what is he insisting on? No one knows this, not even his wife.
Of course, the Holy Emperor Li Xuan doesn't know either, but Li Xuan doesn't care!
For Li Xuan, selecting Chen Lifu to serve as the imperial study room was just a routine operation. Over the years, he would adjust the personnel in the imperial study room at regular intervals, and he would try his best to keep the structure of the imperial study room as stable as possible.
What kind of imperial study room structure is the most stable? That is, one family cannot dominate!
Ever since Liu Bago became an official in old age, no minister on duty in the Imperial Study Room can dominate the others. The power of these ministers on duty is roughly equal.
For example, the newly appointed Chen Lifu is the second-rank Minister of Commerce. At the same time, Li Xuan also asked him to be in charge of economic development, so whether it is the Ministry of Commerce or other ministries of industry, transportation, agriculture, state-owned enterprises, etc.
He can have a hand in any affairs or institutions related to economic development.
But the other ministers on duty are also powerful enough. For example, Qin Xunke, the Minister of Finance who was appointed last year. He was born in an accountant and has been working in the financial system for a long time. After he was appointed, he was in charge of financial affairs, and the most important thing is
He also oversees the tax department.
To put it bluntly, he is in charge of money. All matters related to government money are in his charge, and no matter what time, the money bag always carries a heavy weight.
There is also Jia Wenbo, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. He has no other affairs in charge, but one Minister of the Ministry of Personnel is enough. The Ministry of Personnel has always been the most powerful department in the empire, especially after Qian Zuili became an official. Without Qian Zuili, the Tax Department
Although he is still strong, he is no longer able to stand out.
Jia Wenbo, a man who is in charge of the political lives of countless officials, can cause a big earthquake in the officialdom if he speaks in a slightly louder tone outside. How can such a high-ranking official not have authority?
There is also Xie Yiwei, the Minister of Rites. The Ministry of Rites is not only in charge of interests, but also in charge of diplomacy, education, and imperial examinations. In addition, he is also responsible for some people's livelihood and internal affairs. Although they are not very good, there are so many things that others are responsible for.
If I can't beat you, they will fight with you in a group...
The above four people are the core pillars of the traditional civil service group in the Imperial Study Room.
As for the other five people in the imperial study, they actually have nothing to do with traditional civil servants.
Among them, one is from the Army and one is from the Navy, both of which are served by active-duty bosses in the Army and Navy.
Then there is one person each for the Imperial Court and the Supervisory Yuan. These two institutions are independent of the civil service group. The Imperial Court is fine and can be regarded as the independent agency with the least real power in the Tang Dynasty.
However, the Inspectorate is not simple. They have great authority, and other officials of this agency and the cabinet are natural enemies. The senior officials in the Inspectorate, especially those who are third grade or above, all have their own hands.
It is full of the blood of corrupt officials, otherwise they would not be able to climb up at all.
The censors in the Inspectorate of the Tang Dynasty can only be transferred around within the judicial system, and there is a high probability that they will still serve within the Inspectorate during their lifetime. They have nothing to do with other officials. At the same time, if they want to be promoted, there is only one way, then
It means catching corrupt officials.
If these censors don't remove a few high-ranking officials from the cabinet, he himself can't hope to climb up and become the censor of the capital.
Next are the academicians of the Hanlin Academy. Although officials in some departments within the Hanlin Academy have relatively close ties with ordinary civil servant groups, academicians have always had nothing to do with traditional civil servants.
All the bachelors in charge of the academy in the past generations were secretaries in the secretariat. The secretaries in these secretariat are different from the officials in other departments of the Hanlin Academy. They are all lone ministers.