Chapter 2175 The model of the ruler and minister: Li Xuan and Chen Lifu
The Imperial Study Room is the core of the empire's power. The terms of the nine ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room are slightly longer and more flexible, but they must also comply with the empire's official mobility rules.
Generally speaking, after a cabinet official serves as the minister on duty in the imperial study room, under normal circumstances, he or she will hold the position in a regular manner, without making mistakes and without any special performance. Generally, the term of office is only five years.
A very small number of people will be retained in office for an additional year or two because of their outstanding political performance. These few people are often candidates for the next head of the Imperial Study Room.
This was the case with Chen Lifu. In the 41st year of Xuanping Dynasty, he had actually served for five years, but his two-year petition to beg for bones was rejected, making him a candidate for the foreman of the imperial study room.
In the eighth year, which was the forty-third year of Xuanping, as Jia Wenbo, the former foreman of the imperial study, became an official, he successfully became the oldest minister on duty in the imperial study, and then became the de facto foreman of the imperial study.
Minister.
After becoming the de facto foreman of the imperial study, his term of office is still about five years according to convention, and it may be one or two years less or more than one or two years.
This year, Chen Lifu has been serving as the foreman of the imperial study room for five years. According to the convention, he should retire from office, although the Holy Emperor has expressed his intention to let him continue to work for another one or two years.
But there are only one or two years left, and he doesn’t have enough time!
In the past five years, Chen Lifu has done a lot, especially the sustained and stable implementation of the economic development plan (including global economic integration), which has achieved remarkable results.
But, in Chen Lifu's opinion, this political achievement was not enough, and it was greatly enriched by that bastard Jia Wenbo.
Although he first proposed this policy in the 40th year and was specifically responsible for it, in the early stages of the implementation of this policy, from the 40th year to the 43rd year of Xuanping, Jia Wenbo was the leading figure in the Tang Empire.
He is the first civil servant, and he is the foreman of the imperial study.
At that time, Chen Lifu was engaged in economic development planning. Strictly speaking, he was only in charge of economic work. If he achieved results, Jia Wenbo would have to take away more than half of the achievements.
How should I put it? Although Chen Lifu’s contribution to the economic development plan, including global economic integration, is indispensable, Jia Wenbo’s contribution is also indispensable.
Many people even believed that this was a policy plan proposed by Jia Wenbo when he was in charge of the imperial study, so many people regarded this policy as Jia Wenbo's policy, and Chen Lifu was just the person in charge.
To be honest, this made Chen Lifu very hurt!
This economic development plan was proposed and planned by Chen Lifu. Emperor Sheng personally approved and promoted it. Chen Lifu implemented it in detail. So what did Jia Wenbo do here?
In Chen Lifu's words, Jia Wenbo's biggest role in this policy was not to mess around and obstruct the economic development plan!
But many people don't think so. On the contrary, many people think that this is Jia Wenbo's political wisdom. Because of Jia Wenbo's full delegation of power and support, Chen Lifu can perform well.
Even after Jia Wenbo retired, Chen Lifu presided over the economic development plan and achieved great success. The outside world believed that he was just continuing the policies of the Jia Wenbo period.
Therefore, after Jia Wenbo became official, whether it was the public opinion among the high-level officials of the empire or the ordinary public opinion, the praise for Jia Wenbo was very high.
However, this made Chen Lifu very frustrated!
It was obviously all my own doing, but for no apparent reason, most of the credit was taken away by others.
I only have a little bit of hard work left.
Chen Lifu felt aggrieved and unwilling to give in!
Therefore, in addition to the economic development plan, he wanted to find a new political achievement breakthrough point, enough to completely crush Jia Wenbo and beat Liu Bagou's great political achievements to death.
It was under this circumstance that imperial globalization became his goal!
Chen Lifu began to engage in imperial globalization last year. After this year, the results have been remarkable.
It has captured Eastern Europe, and now even the Ottoman Empire has been taken over initially.
Although it took several years for the Ottomans to move, the Tatars still stayed there, and it would take at least two or three years for this area to be completely handed over to the empire.
However, there is no doubt that this place has been taken over, and the follow-up is just a steady process of relocating the natives and immigrating the empire's citizens.
With the remarkable results, Chen Lifu naturally wanted to continue pushing forward.
The Safavid dynasty, the Mughal dynasty and even parts of India are the next targets.
At the same time, Central Europe, Western Europe, and Northern Europe must also proceed simultaneously.
He hopes to get good news from the Safavid area in the next few months, and good news from the remaining Mughal areas and northwest India within half a year.
In the next one or two years, we will start to deal with affairs in Central Europe, Northern Europe, and Western Europe, as well as central and southern India.
Of course, Chen Lifu did not expect to completely bring the above-mentioned areas under the rule of the empire in just one or two years, or even turn them into native lands. That would be unrealistic.
If things go according to normal circumstances, even if everything goes well, the whole process will last for more than five years.
But what Chen Lifu hopes is to lay down the overall situation within two years, settle the status first, take the credit, and leave the subsequent work of relocating the natives and immigrants to the headache of his successors!
Five or ten years later, after the migration is completely completed, the credit will still be mine.
Let your successors also experience the aggrieved feeling of being in the economic development plan!
Two years later, after the empire has been globally globalized in name, he will push for another big thing.
What's the big deal?
Stand up!
Build a huge statue!
He wanted to find several geologically stable and conspicuous places at the same time, preferably along the coast.
Build a statue of the Holy Emperor several hundred meters high respectively.
The sculpture is made of solid stone, allowing this statue to withstand the erosion of the long years. Even thousands or even tens of thousands of years later, people can still see the huge statue of the Holy Emperor on the coastline from the distant sea at a glance!
To ensure that the great achievements of the Holy Emperor in unifying the world will not be forgotten because of the passage of time!
At the same time, in order not to leave the statue of the Holy Emperor alone, there must be some smaller statues of ministers here!
As the most famous minister of the Tang Dynasty who assisted the Holy Emperor to unify the world, his statue of Chen Lifu will be closest to the Holy Emperor than other statues and will be the largest among the statues of the ministers. This is a very reasonable thing.
Finally, a huge stone tablet that can survive tens of thousands of years is used to record the great achievements of the Holy Emperor in unifying the world. As the chief minister on duty who assisted the Holy Emperor in unifying the world, Chen Lifu's name naturally needs to be emphasized. It appears frequently. several times.
And no one should object!
After all, when he helped the Holy Emperor unify the world, Jia Wenbo would be completely trampled under his feet.
Liu Bagou is a little more troublesome, but by then Liu Bagou is probably already in the grave, and there is no way he can crawl out of the grave to fight with him.
The imperial doctor had already hinted that three months would be Liu Bagou's limit.
By the time the statue was erected, Liu Bagou was already dead, Jia Wenbo could not wait, and no one could force Chen Lifu to become the first official of the Tang Empire!
Of course, the premise of all this is the smooth globalization of the empire, at least before he takes office, even if it is just to confirm his title.
Just like the current Ottoman region, only the status was confirmed, and the migration and immigration work had to continue for several years.
Before he became an official, he confirmed the empire's global status, so that he could naturally become the first official of the Tang Dynasty.
Chen Lifu, who was deeply aware of the urgency of time, spared no effort to accelerate the empire's globalization strategy!
The reason why Chen Lifu's strategy was able to win the support of the Holy Emperor was actually because the Holy Emperor Li Xuan also felt that he was getting older.
Life, aging, illness and death are normal. No one can predict how many years he can live. If he is unlucky, it is possible that Li Xuan will die within the next two years.
Because of this uncertainty in the future, Li Xuan had the idea of accelerating the promotion of global unification.
Unifying the world is a great achievement that can shine in the history of mankind and will most likely be remembered forever by mankind until the end of mankind. Li Xuan feels that this kind of thing can only be done by himself and cannot leave this burden to the prince.
The prince is still too young to bear such a heavy burden!
Li Xuan felt that he had the responsibility and obligation to complete the great cause of unifying the world, so he would support Chen Lifu in accelerating the process of imperial globalization.
At the same time, Chen Lifu found an opportunity and hinted to Li Xuan, saying that in a few years, after the empire was globalized, he wanted to build several super statues to commemorate it. Li Xuan was moved.
Of course, Li Xuan didn't make any explicit statement, at most it was just acquiescence.
Otherwise, how could Chen Lifu dare to push this matter forward?
How should I put it? The globalization of the empire and even the erection of statues and monuments have nothing to do with interests. It is purely because Li Xuan and Chen Lifu both want to leave their names in history. Or, to put it more bluntly, both of them want to leave their names in history.
I want to show off!
And this pair of monarch and minister who can have this idea at the same time and actually plan to do it can be regarded as a model of monarch and minister.