No matter what era or regime it is in, military power is an extremely sensitive topic, first of all the thoughts of the ruler, and secondly the separation of civil and military officials.
Let’s not mention the thoughts of emperors like Li Xuan. Let’s just talk about the antagonism between civil servants and military officers. This kind of antagonism has been extremely serious since ancient times, both at home and abroad, and it is rare to hear of any regime where civil and military officials can be harmonious.
getting along with each other.
Later, in Japan after the Meiji Restoration and in modern America, the opposition was quite serious!
Even within the military, the antagonism between the arms is equally serious!
Now someone from the Ministry of Taxation has proposed to build a tax inspection corps, and it will have 2,000 people and the same equipment as the regular army. If this matter is exposed, it is estimated that many generals in the military will have considerable opinions!
Nowadays, in the Tang Dynasty, both regular and auxiliary military forces are actually related to the military. Needless to say, the regular army and the garrison. Even the bandit camps on the ground are under the dual leadership of the military and the internal patrol department.
, especially when it comes to combat missions, they are basically under the personal command of the military, but there is no saying that the patrol department has the power to command alone.
The tax inspection team established by the current tax department has originally caused dissatisfaction among some people in the military. However, today's tax inspection team is relatively small and scattered. At the same time, it is not involved in detailed combat affairs. When encountering armed tax resistance,
In the event of an incident, it is always necessary to ask the local garrison for help.
But now the Ministry of Taxation actually wants to establish a formal armed force such as the Tax Inspection Corps. This kind of thing is intolerable to the military.
In fact, not only the military, but even Li Xuan himself felt that he was not suitable.
Although there was a tax police group under Song Ziwen in later generations, it was during the warlord war period, and it was just a single example.
Furthermore, the Ministry of Taxation belongs to the cabinet and ultimately belongs to the civil service system. If the Ministry of Taxation establishes a tax inspection corps, then the separation of civil and military affairs that Li Xuan has been insisting on will be a joke.
This example must not be opened!
I opened the report, put a big x on it, and wrote the comment: "No!"
After thinking for a while, he added: "None of the agencies under the cabinet are allowed to organize armies in the future. This is a permanent rule!"
Li Xuan didn't intend to open his mouth, and he didn't even want to open his mouth to anyone who came after him!
Otherwise, today there will be a tax inspection team from the Tax Department, tomorrow there will be a patrol team from the Patrol Department, and the day after tomorrow there will be an inspection team from the Supervisory Office, and one from each department such as the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Agriculture.
, isn’t it going to cause chaos!
All formal and auxiliary military forces within the Tang Dynasty must belong to the Privy Council!
Even the Guards that Li Xuan plans to rebuild is no exception!
Although the Guards that Li Xuan plans to rebuild is said to be a Guards force directly under the emperor, it will also be placed under the Privy Council. Why?
Because the Guards are actually the same as the army, the garrison, the bandit camp, etc., they are all armed forces that belong only to Li Xuan. The emperor Li Xuan is the supreme commander of the Privy Council. The Privy Council does not have a president, deputy president, etc.
Among the positions, the highest one is the director of each department.
The particularity of the Guards is that the Guards are responsible for the personal safety of the emperor and the royal family and act as a guard force. They are slightly different from the regular army and garrison in terms of military system, but in essence, they are still members of the Tang Dynasty.
part of the military component.
After writing the annotations, Li Xuan looked at the names on the memorial. After thinking about it for half a minute, he quietly turned on the bell on the table. Then, an attendant from the Hanlin Academy walked in outside the door.
Li Xuan said: "Ask Qian Zuoli from the tax department to come this afternoon!"
Qian Zuili, the former director of the Grain Collection Department of the Taxation Department of the Tang Dynasty, the current Zuo Shilang of the Taxation Department, and the second-in-command of the entire taxation system of the Tang Dynasty, was the one who proposed the creation of the tax inspection corps.
The Imperial Academy's attendant took notes and went out, while Li Xuan re-reviewed other memorials. The remaining matters were still mixed, and Li Xuan's speed in reviewing memorials was always extremely fast!
Except for some special things, most of them just simply annotate the word "read". If you write too many words for "read", you will occasionally change it to "got it".
Of course, he would also leave a few more words or lines of comments on some more important things, such as Sun Yawei, the governor of Liping Prefecture, who reported that after the war in Liping Prefecture, people's livelihood was in ruins, and there were homeless people and people without food rations.
There are so many, please ask the court to give some money and food to help the victims.
In this regard, Li Xuan's comment is: I have read that all cabinet ministries are required to provide relief as quickly as possible to prevent disasters and people's livelihood changes. Relief should be based on work instead of recovery. The Supervisory Yuan should also inspect all officials to strictly prevent officials from misappropriating disaster relief money and grain. If there is any crime,
If you do, the crime will be increased to three levels!
There is also a memorial sent back by Ma Wei. In addition to talking about the situation in Liuzhou Mansion, he also flattered Li Xuan and asked if his dragon body was healthy. The weather was already cold. As the pillar of the Tang Dynasty, your majesty must wear more clothes to take care of his dragon body and so on.
Li Xuan's review: I'm safe, it's cold winter, you should help the people of Liuzhou to spend the winter safely, and don't let the roads freeze to death, so that my heart will be at peace!
After reviewing all the memorials, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon before I knew it!
In fact, Li Xuan does not spend much time reviewing memorials every day, because there is a Hanlin Academy under him. These Hanlins have actually approved all the memorials except the secret memorials in advance, and will also review some longer ones.
A summary of the memorial was made for Li Xuan to read.
Then as the number of memorials increased recently, Li Xuan also began to delegate certain powers to the Hanlin Academy. That is, in addition to military affairs, when the Hanlin officials classified and reviewed the memorials in advance, they would make preliminary decisions first.
If Li Xuan feels that the handling opinions submitted by the Hanlin Academy can be used, he will usually choose them directly. If he is not satisfied, he can directly send them back and redraft them, or simply let Li Xuan
Make decisions directly.
For example, in the above-mentioned memorial of Sun Yawei, in addition to the two sentences approved by Li Xuan, the Hanlin Imperial Examiner in charge of the memorial also made two detailed treatment plans. The entire plan is hundreds of words long, and it is basically given.
Provide opinions on how to deal with the disaster, including relief for the victims, where to collect money and food, how to supervise the Supervisory Office, how to deal with the resulting refugees, etc.
Otherwise, Li Xuan would be too exhausted to handle the memorials that are constantly being submitted every day!
However, in order to prevent the Hanlin Academy from overstepping its authority, Li Xuan strictly stipulated that any memorial must not be withheld or altered by the Hanlin Academy, and the original text of the memorial must be submitted.
At the same time, the final decision must be made by the emperor Li Xuan himself!
In other words, the Hanlin Academy only proposed preliminary solutions to Li Xuan, and often asked for more than two at the same time. However, the only one who really had the right to make a decision was Li Xuan himself. The Hanlin Academy did not make a decision.
Powerful.
Li Xuan's positioning for the Hanlin Academy has always been very clear, that is, it is a secretarial agency used to reduce the workload here, rather than a power agency that can make any decisions!
But recently, he also felt that some Hanlin officials in the Hanlin Academy were generally less capable, and many times the solutions they formulated were unsatisfactory to him.
For this reason, he was already preparing to carry out certain reforms in the Hanlin Academy. He continued to subdivide the various departments in the Hanlin Academy and expanded it to twenty-eight departments, including military, civil affairs and other affairs. The chiefs of these departments,
It is also planned to recruit some capable and practical middle-level officials from the Tang Dynasty to serve as the chief.
And in order to prevent the section chiefs of the Hanlin Academy from having too much power, he stipulated that any section chief, deputy section chief or even ordinary section member serving in the Hanlin Academy should not serve for more than three years, and they could not be changed to another position after three years.
If you stay in Beijing, you must serve in a local area. You can return to Beijing to serve after three years, and you can serve in the Hanlin Academy for the second time after six years.
At the same time, it is stipulated that internal promotions are not allowed within the Hanlin Academy. In other words, ordinary staff members in the Hanlin Academy cannot be directly promoted to deputy section chiefs within the Hanlin Academy. Section chiefs will be transferred outside after three years, and they can only be promoted.
Get promoted outside.
At the same time, it is also strictly stipulated that Hanlin officials are not allowed to associate with foreign officials. Anyone who has close contact with foreign officials will be severely dealt with.
Anyone who secretly leaks the contents of the memorial will have his or her house confiscated!
Anyone who secretly leaks the contents of military affairs memorials will be punished by the Nine Tribes!
In addition, there are many large and small systems specifically designed to limit the power of the Hanlin Academy. There are hundreds of them. In summary, there are restrictions on this and restrictions on that. Li Xuan wished that they could not do anything except review memorials. It would be best to be locked up directly in a secret chamber.
In an airtight prison.
Well, in fact, he actually did this. The Hanlin Academy was set up next to the temporary operation, and a guard battalion was responsible for guarding it. No one was allowed in or out except the Hanlin people.
On the one hand, Li Xuan delegated power to the Hanlin Academy, but on the other hand, he also put layers of shackles on the Hanlin Academy and made them dance in shackles, in order to prevent the secretarial institution of the Hanlin Academy from deteriorating.
The Hanlin Academy created by Li Xuan is very different from the Ming Dynasty's cabinet and the Qing Dynasty's Military Aircraft Department. First of all, the biggest difference is that they actually have no decision-making power!
All the decision-making power is in Li Xuan's hands, and they have the right to make suggestions!
Moreover, there is a difference between Hanlin and Hanlin. Each department is only responsible for one aspect of content. Even the department responsible for military affairs, Li Xuan is divided into seven.
The reason why there are so many Hanlin Academy departments is to divide and conquer them so that no one department has too much power.
Because even if it is the power of suggestion, this kind of power is huge for a feudal dynasty, and Li Xuan has to guard against it!
After processing the memorial, Huo Shouqi, a bachelor at the Hanlin Academy, walked in and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, most of the people who came to see the saint from outside have already arrived!"
Li Xuan said: "Has Qian Zuili arrived?"
Huo Shouqi said: "Master Qian has arrived and is waiting outside!"
Li Xuan said oh, and then said: "Let him come in!"
Li Xuan wanted to meet Qian Zili, naturally not to prepare for the establishment of some tax inspection team. That matter was unreliable because it involved the separation of civil and military affairs and the separation of military and political affairs.
Li Xuan wanted to see him, but it was for other reasons!