Although the imperial study is the center of imperial power, and the people inside are all important officials of the empire, the hierarchy in the imperial study is actually very clear.
The minister on duty is aloof, while the minister on duty is very mobile, and the difference between them is also very large.
Some strong walking ministers are strong candidates for the subsequent on-duty ministers, and sometimes they can even openly compete with the on-duty ministers.
However, some weak walking ministers, especially those who were able to enter due to special reasons, and who entered through the typical way of rewarding old ministers, are basically very weak, and even other walking ministers generally ignore them.
Because everyone knows that whether it is Wei Guangqing or Chen Bingquan, they both stayed in the imperial study for a short time, ranging from a few months to a year at most before becoming official.
No, this difference was reflected in today's imperial study room duty meeting.
When the meeting began, everyone took their seats.
This seating arrangement is also very interesting!
There is a rectangular table in the middle, with four people on each side and one person at the end, but there is no one at the top.
The order of everyone is also particular. They are sorted according to their title, grade, and the time they enter the imperial study.
For example, Chen Lifu is listed at the top on the left because his official position is the Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, the second rank, but last year he was awarded the title of Prince's Young Master, the first rank.
According to the official system that was successively reformed in the Tang Empire.
The highest level is the first grade. There are only three gongs, three orphans, and bachelors.
From the first-grade prince, the third master, and the third young master, he co-organized the bachelor's degree.
Those who hold the second rank include the ministers of various ministries, the censor of the capital, and the president of the great court.
However, it is worth noting that the Tang Empire only awarded the title of bachelor to Liu Bagou and others at the beginning of the founding of the country, and never awarded them again after that.
As for the titles of Three Lords and Three Solitaries, only Liu Bagou has received the title of Taifu, and no one else has.
Although the titles of the Grand Scholars and the Three Lords and Three Sovereigns in the Tang Empire did not have any real power, only rank, and were purely honorary titles, when they were awarded to important ministers, they could also increase the political status of the ministers.
The Tang Empire has not awarded many bachelor's degrees over the years. In the early days of the founding of the country, there were three major hall bachelors, but later on, only Liu Bagou retained the title of bachelor. Even after Liu Bagou became an official, Li Xuan still retained Liu Bagou's title.
The Intermediate Palace Bachelor.
So even though Liu Bagou is bedridden all year round, he is still the only great scholar in the Tang Empire!
Not only that, before Liu Bagou took office, Li Xuan awarded him the title of Grand Master.
This is the only title of Three Gongs and Three Solitaries that has been awarded in the entire Tang Dynasty Empire for decades, and once awarded, it is the top title of Grand Master.
In addition, Liu Bagou was also a Duke of the Empire. The original Duke was inherited for three generations, and after three generations, he was reduced to the hereditary rank of Viscount. This was the only honor he had in the Tang Empire.
This is a unique honor given to him by Li Xuan!
But for other ministers, Li Xuan never conferred the title of Three Dukes and Three Gus, nor did he confer a bachelor's degree. Generally, he only conferred it to the prince, three divisions and three young masters, and even the third division was rarely awarded. Usually it was the third young master.
That is to say, the three titles of Prince Shaoshi, Prince Shaofu and Prince Shaobao are more often awarded.
Just the title of Prince Shaobao was obtained by more than 20 ministers in the Tang Empire.
Basically, as long as ministers on duty in the imperial study room make no mistakes in the process, successfully complete their mission of being on duty in the imperial study room, and eventually become official smoothly, without any stains, they can all obtain the title of Crown Prince Shaobao when they are close to becoming official.
Of course, there are also many people who obtained the above titles while serving as ministers on duty in the royal study room, and even received higher-status titles such as Prince's Young Master, Prince's Young Master, etc.
Chen Lifu falls into this category. He has been a member of the imperial study for some years. With his outstanding industrial and commercial economic development capabilities, the empire's economy has continued to rise. For this reason, he was awarded the title of Prince Shaobao with only two points of investment.
title, last year, he surpassed the title of Prince's Young Master and directly obtained the title of Prince's Young Master.
At this time, he was only one step away from the top honor that a civil servant could obtain before becoming an official, that is, the Third Prince's Division.
As for the Three Gongs and Three Solitaries who are further up, he has no hope.
There were countless civil and military ministers in the Tang Dynasty, but only Liu Bagou could be awarded the title of Grand Master among the Three Lords and Three Solitaries. Liu Bagou was able to win this honor because he helped Emperor Taizu Wu and Emperor Sheng successively.
The throne laid the foundation of the Tang Empire. Although these things are not openly discussed, people who actually know the inside story of the early empire know it.
Liu Bagou raised the conditions for canonizing the Three Lords and Three Solitary Ones to a level that is hard to look up to!
But others are far from qualified!
Maybe you can fantasize about it when you are about to take office, but if it doesn't work, you probably have to wait until you die before you can pursue the title of Sangu and Sangu.
But even so, Chen Lifu is currently the only young master in the Imperial Study Room.
So he deservedly sat on the left side of the table.
Others also sat down separately according to their titles.
The chief bachelor of the Hanlin Academy is the most special. He does not sit on the left or right side, but sits directly at the rear, alone.
And according to the usual practice, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy rarely expresses any opinions at the imperial study room duty meeting, and basically just listens.
Because the system of the Hanlin Academy is too special, all the bachelors who have been in charge of the Academy are without exception. They are all solitary ministers. Not only do they never participate in court struggles, but even outside, most of them do not have contact with other civil and military officials, even the Academy.
The bachelor's family is generally very low-key.
Because, it is impossible for someone who does not do this to become a master of the academy. Let alone a master of the academy, he cannot even enter the secretariat.
And all the previous bachelors in charge of the academy have been the directors of the secretariat, without exception.
The minister on duty in the imperial study room, the bachelor of the imperial academy, and the director of the secretariat of the imperial academy. This is the trinity.
For such an important position, if you are not an absolute lone minister, then it is impossible to sit in such an important position.
On both sides of the nine ministers on duty in the imperial study room, there is a row of seats at the back. These seats are for the walking ministers.
However, even the seats of these walking ministers cannot be taken casually. Those on both sides close to the top are all important figures among the walking ministers. For example, the person sitting at the top left side of the back row is Chen.
The person behind Lifu is the current Minister of Taxation!
As for Chen Bingquan and Wei Guangqing, their positions are naturally at the end. Chen Bingquan is at the bottom on the far right, and Wei Guangqing is next to him.
It can be seen from their positions that the two of them are in the imperial study room, both of them are half-assed and not doing well.
However, there is nothing that can be done about it, even though the department they are in charge of is so weak.
If you want to be strong, you can. If you have the ability, you can become a minister of powerful departments such as the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
Or take up the position of Minister of Rites, which is equally powerful and extremely expensive. In other words, all the Ministers of Rites will enter the imperial study room, and several of them have also served as ministers on duty.
But as for other departments, the situation is much worse.
The big bosses at the front had already started the meeting, but Wei Guangqing and Chen Bingquan seemed a little absent-minded. Although they were not whispering to each other, they were all distracted.
Because, according to the usual rules, from the beginning to the end of the meeting, there will be nothing personal for them. They just need to sit in their seats and wait for the end of the meeting.
Therefore, even though the big guys started arguing, and the Minister of Agriculture even slapped the table on the Minister of State-owned Enterprises, Chen Bingquan still squinted his eyes and seemed to be listening to the discussion with a serious expression.
But in fact, he was already thinking about his eldest grandson's marriage in a few days.
His Chen family is not a scholarly family in the traditional sense. For the eighteenth generation of his old Chen family, they were all doctors...
When he was young, Chen Bingquan was also a doctor. He eventually entered the Taiyuan Hospital. Later, he was transferred to the Academic Affairs Office of the Royal Institute of Technology to assist in handling the affairs of the Department of Medicine within the Royal Institute of Technology. Only then was he appreciated by his superiors, and finally entered the official career, handling
Epidemic prevention and hygiene work.
After decades of work, but with poor medical skills, he actually became the head of the entire empire's medical and health care system and became the Minister of Health. It has to be said that this was a twist of fate.
The Chen family has been known as "famous doctors" for generations, and even his son is also a doctor, but his eldest grandson is not. His eldest grandson has a smart mind and good physical fitness. He has ranked first in every exam since elementary school, and he is a teenager.
By that time, he was already as strong as a little adult.
Later, I tried to apply for the Royal Junior Military Academy, and I actually got into it.
Later, after fierce competition, he was successfully promoted to the Royal Youth Military Academy. While in school, he was also selected for the infantry team of the Royal Youth Military Academy and served as the captain for a time.
This makes Chen Bingquan’s face light up!
It's not easy to join the footwork team, and it's even more difficult to be the captain.
He has served as captain of the foot team of the Royal Youth Military Academy, and he is a man of the hour in the school.
Datang's step ball was born out of the military's step ball. The gameplay is actually very simple. Just use the stick in your hand to score the ball into the opponent's goal. A certain degree of reasonable collision is allowed. However, collision is not the main thing. What is important is
tactics.
A foot team with high tactical literacy, especially a foot team with an excellent captain, can make the opponent completely confused when attacking. They don't even know where the ball is or which direction to defend!
Finally, when the attacking team easily pushes the ball into the opponent's goal, they will suddenly realize it!
Sometimes during the entire process, the player holding the ball will not even suffer any physical collision, because his players will cover him!
The most common scene on the foot court is: most of the players on the offensive side, under the command of the captain, launch a confusing attack to disrupt the opponent's defensive deployment. At the same time, the player holding the ball makes a flanking detour or direct surprise attack, and then hits the ball.
Score into the opponent's goal.
The same is true when defending. A good captain can judge the opponent's offensive tactics, make targeted adjustments, intercept, or even launch a counterattack on the spot after a successful interception, and then hit the ball to score.
Between the virtual and the real, what is competing is the tactics of both sides.
Datang's football is actually similar to fighting. Otherwise, this number would not be a team of fourteen people. This is the standard number of people in Datang's infantry squad!
It also attaches great importance to tactical confrontation and requires very high tactical literacy of players. As for physical fitness, it is definitely better than ordinary people, but it is not as abnormal as many sports in later generations.
This thing looks like movement, but in fact it is heavy infantry fighting!
Therefore, there are many infantry teams within the military, and their members are basically all outstanding young officers. The captain of the infantry team is often the best young officer in the army.
At the same time, in major colleges and universities, the football team brings together the most influential figures in the school, and the captain is a recognized student leader.
The eldest grandson who became the captain of the foot team successfully entered the martial arts academy and officially graduated this year to serve in the army.
Now that they have all joined the army and served in the army, it is time to get married.
If we follow the folk tradition of the Tang Dynasty, the age of marriage is actually relatively early for both men and women. However, for aspiring young people, the age of marriage is often later, especially for those in military academies, because their teenage years are
You must concentrate and study hard, otherwise you will be eliminated.
Of course, we only talk about getting married late, but generally we get engaged early.
Well, everyone is not stupid, they saw you as a potential stock and caught it early.
Those students in the martial arts school have basically been engaged during their preparatory or Royal Youth Military Academy years, because they have been targeted by others early on, and they will not wait until this person is actually admitted to the martial arts school.
By that time, the cucumber vegetables were cold.
Chen Bingquan's eldest grandson was also engaged when he was in the Royal Youth Military Academy. The other party was not a high-ranking official in the court, but the Fang family in Hangzhou, who came from a traditional scholarly family and had huge assets in the industrial and commercial circles.
The Fang family is a traditional scholarly family. In the early years, the Fang family was also one of the earliest people from Conglong. Strictly speaking, they entered the officialdom in the same year as Chen Lifu. After serving as an official for many years, they became the right minister of the household department.
It is a pity that the Fang family has no outstanding children since then.
Not to mention that there are no more high-ranking officials at the rank of minister, there are no children above the seventh rank, let alone in the military world. If the children of the Fang family do not have the talent to join the army, no one can be admitted to the military academy.
However, he still has a family background, and his family fund has a good investment vision. In his early years, he invested in many large companies and obtained many shares. For example, his family fund owns 8% of the shares of Zhili Textile Bank, and also owns many
Shares of large listed companies.
In a word: not short of money!
They have social status and money, but their descendants cannot live up to their expectations!