Chapter 2156 The Disintegration of the Three Provinces
On the altar, there was a strong wind.
The ministers were already waiting respectfully under the altar. There were three layers of people watching inside and three layers outside, covering the entire wilderness. Everyone held their breath in the turbulent wind and watched the figure step by step towards the altar.
Go up.
The last time Li Xinchen worshiped heaven and earth in such a formal manner should actually be traced back to the time when he ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor. After all, after that, there was nothing worthy of Li Xinchen worshiping heaven and earth with such fanfare.
Worshiping the heaven and earth is also a technical job, which requires choosing the right time and formulating a good process.
If the process is not formulated well, then people will definitely laugh at them secretly, and if the timing is not chosen well, it will be even more embarrassing. Just take the Feng Chan Taishan as an example, Qin Shihuang Feng Chan, he is qualified, because he unified the six countries
It was indeed an unparalleled achievement. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty also had this qualification. Whether they defeated the Xiongnu or the Turks, they indeed solved the old enemies that had troubled China for hundreds of years and made the entire dynasty completely prosperous.
But because Song Zhenzong signed a peace treaty with the Liao Kingdom, he also felt that he was qualified to consecrate Mount Tai. This made future generations laugh in vain. After all, you didn't even defeat the Liao army, but both sides were afraid of being completely defeated.
Falling into the quagmire of the war, they just stopped fighting together. Even the Song Dynasty did not get complete benefits. Instead, it gained more coins, which was ridiculed by future generations. How could it say that it could compare with the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty?
What Li Xingchen has done now is just to end these three hundred years of troubled times, and in this process, he is actually more just following the trend. The general trend of the world is that if we divide for a long time, we will unite, and if we unite for a long time, we will divide. Even without Li Xinchen,
Yang Jian or others will also complete this process, so Li Xingchen is not in a hurry to be granted Zen status. He will wait until he conquers the Western Regions or the grasslands before being granted Zen status. At least his face will look better, right?
As for worshiping heaven outside Luoyang City, Li Xingchen also hesitated for a long time.
In fact, he was also worried that the way he was worshiping heaven and earth and declaring the prosperity and power of the Han Dynasty would cause many people to underestimate the enemy again, thinking that the enemies around them were nothing more than this, and that the Han Dynasty had once again become the celestial dynasty like the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Shangguo, the Han Dynasty now occupies the best land in the world and has the strongest army in the world. All parties should come to surrender.
In this case, wouldn't Li Xinchen's efforts for so long have been in vain?
But having said that, unifying the world is a great achievement in any era. If Li Xingchen didn't pay homage to it, how could he explain it to the people? If such a glorious victory needs to be hidden, then what will the people do?
What to think?
And those heroes who are waiting to be rewarded for their merits, of course, also hope that they can get everything they deserve in a solemn and magnificent scene.
This sacrifice was not only for Li Xingchen to comfort the heroes who had paid the price with their lives in so many years of battles, but also to let all the civil and military officials who followed him feel the cheers and joy of victory.
However, Li Xingchen knew very well in his heart that this victory was the victory that he had wanted ten years ago. As for himself now, he was no longer satisfied with this.
The journey is still long, but now we have just completed one step.
Li Xingchen walked forward step by step, and the soldiers on both sides of the altar bowed their heads to salute their emperor. When they reached the altar platform, Yuan Dashe was already waiting here with two maids and two chamberlains. They were responsible for holding the altar.
Taste.
Seeing Li Xingchen coming up, Yuan Dashe immediately turned around, led his men to place the sacrifices respectfully on the table, and then stepped back respectfully.
The person standing in front of the desk was Xu Shanxin, the General Secretary of the General Office of the Han Dynasty, who was now also serving as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
The General Consulate is responsible for conducting diplomatic missions and receiving envoys from other countries, while the Ministry of Rites is responsible for presiding over some ceremonies involving other countries and tribes. Mismatches often occur due to improper cooperation between the two parties, especially since the General Consulate is subordinate to the sect.
The Ministry of Rites belongs to the Shangshu Province.
Although the Han Dynasty adheres to the system of three provinces and six ministries, in the actual operation for many years, the Zhongshu Province, which is responsible for sorting out documents and delivering messages up and down, and the various agencies directly under the imperial court, such as the general office, which is hard to say which department to be placed in.
The province has actually existed in name only.
Part of the main tasks of the Zhongshu Province were inherited by the secretaries who followed His Majesty, and part of them were taken over by the Du Guan Shangshu who was in charge of the Shangshu Province. There was no way, the Du Guan Shangshu's nominal task was to coordinate the six ministries.
Then he is responsible for sorting out all the affairs of the six departments and reporting them to the superior. However, with Li Xinchen's northern expedition, in order to reduce the team of accompanying officials and ensure that major events in each department can be reported to His Majesty in a timely manner, it is best to
The natural choice is for the Du Guan Shangshu to stay behind and coordinate information from all parties, while the six ministries each select capable officers to follow His Majesty northward, who can report emergency matters to His Majesty in a timely manner and take charge of corresponding work in various parts of the north.
As a result, Du Guan Shangshu, who was originally responsible for the six departments, suddenly became responsible for all memorial exchanges. Naturally, there was no need for Zhongshu to save anything, especially with the retirement of the last prime minister of the Han Dynasty, King Gu Ye.
After that, the new Prime Minister Tang Yishun actually stepped up from the original position of Du Guan Shangshu.
The original arrangement of the imperial court was to remove the Du Guan Shangshu and retain the position of Prime Minister and Fu. Tang Yishun did serve in the position of Prime Minister and Fu for a period of time. However, with the conflict between Zhongshu Province and Shangshu Province being independent of each other and not subordinate to each other.
After this was reflected, Li Xingchen made a decisive decision to remove the Prime Minister and Fu, and even directly abolished the Zhongshu Province, which was only a shell. In fact, all the internal officials were subordinate to the original Du Guan Shangshu, with Du Guan Shangshu as the civil official.
First of all, there is no harm in taking the meaning of all the governor's books.
After all, the "three provinces" of the Han Dynasty now exist in name only. In fact, those who are in charge of the operation of the entire Han Dynasty, since His Majesty, have been six ministries. No, now with the newly established Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Medicine and Ministry of Education, it should be nine ministries.
.Therefore, Shangshu is already a position below almost one or two people among civil servants, and above ten thousand people.
The abolition of the Prime Minister and even the complete abolition of the entire Zhongshu Province, leaving only the Secretaries and Supervisors who were nominally affiliated with the Zhongshu Province but actually followed His Majesty and were directly responsible to His Majesty, did not cause any problems amidst the raging war.
What twists and turns.
In fact, everyone's job has not changed, and they have even just changed their names, so what is there to worry about?
Especially when the imperial court was recruiting people, departments such as Zhongshu Provincial Department and Menxia Provincial Department, which had nothing to do for a while, were naturally depleted of manpower, leaving only a bunch of dispensable empty shelves, so they could not be abolished.