Valley Emperor

Valley Emperor

In the end, these excerpts were collected by the Secretariat. In theory, the Secretariat just sorted out these excerpts and sent them to Li Xuan for personal review, without the authority to approve them.

However, the reason why the Secretariat has become the most important organization of the Hanlin Academy is because of the authority to organize, to a certain extent, this authority can determine which documents are more important, and which documents can be seen by the Son of Heaven first, or even not, and then influence imperial politics.

Because the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan is very busy every day, it is impossible to carefully review hundreds of excerpts every day.

The papers that allow him to read carefully and make his own instructions are often the most important ones, such as papers on high-level personnel changes, military affairs and other major affairs, as well as papers where the opinions of the Imperial Study and the Imperial Academy are inconsistent.

For the rest of the ordinary papers, especially the papers that have been approved by the Imperial Study and the Imperial Academy, he usually has ten lines at a time, and he directly approves one or knows it.

Sometimes he was lazy, and he didn't even bother to read it, so he gave instructions 'read' and 'understood' directly at the back of the book.

After all, hundreds of excerpts are given every day, and there are other messy things every day. Li Xuan's time is not enough every day.

Generally speaking, after having breakfast in the morning, he will arrive at his office at 8:00 sharp, and meet with the minister on duty in the imperial study and walk around, and simply hold a morning meeting. If there is no special event, it is usually a half-hour meeting. It will be over in about an hour.

Afterwards, Li Xuan will begin to review the excerpts, and this batch of review will be reviewed until about eleven o'clock.

Then there is the meeting with the ministers. Most of these officials are officials from all over the country returning to Beijing to report their duties, or the policy address before taking office. This interview time often lasts until more than twelve o'clock, and sometimes they even give meals directly while eating. Keep talking.

After the chat, Li Xuan would take a nap, wake up in the afternoon and continue to review the papers, and he would meet with ministers at intervals. These ministers are usually high-ranking officials, and they usually meet on a temporary basis.

Li Xuan looked at the time, sometimes he saw it, and sometimes he was too lazy to see it.

In the evening, Li Xuan will summon the heads of the various sections of the Hanlin Academy for a daily regular meeting. Because this time is usually close to the end of get off work, Li Xuan always asks them to talk about something and keep their mouths shut. Most of this regular meeting is for half an hour. end within.

After the regular meeting of the Hanlin Academy, Li Xuan's day-to-day work was basically over. In the evening, if Li Xuan was diligent, he would work overtime to continue reviewing the papers.

But reviewing the papers every day, a self-proclaimed hard-working person like Li Xuan can't stand it every day, so he usually doesn't work overtime at night, or spend time with his family, or enjoy dancing, even if he is in a daze in the office, he doesn't want to Continue to approve the discount.

This is daily life. In addition, a regular court meeting is held on the first, tenth, and twentieth of every month. The number of courtiers participating in this regular court meeting is much larger than the daily morning meeting in the imperial study.

In the morning meeting in the imperial study room, the participants were limited to the duty ministers and walking ministers on duty. The number of people was usually only about seven or eight people, but no more than a dozen people.

In the regular court meeting, the participants have only one characteristic, that is, the heads of various departments!

On the civilian side, there are ministers of various ministries, the censors of the Inspectorate, the judges of the Grand Court, and the heads of other directly affiliated institutions. On the military side, there are mainly the heads of the Privy Council and the Naval Command, as well as the three chiefs of staff of the Guards.

These people add up to about forty people.

However, such a meeting is still only a small meeting. After all, it is a routine meeting once every ten days. It is mainly used to discuss affairs, and it is important to discuss matters that cannot be disputed.

Therefore, such a routine meeting is often prone to fierce debates, and it is normal to open it all morning.

However, this kind of routine court meeting is still very different from the official court meeting, otherwise it would not be titled with the word 'routine'.

Traditional court meetings are often formal court meetings attended by many people. Hundreds of people participate casually, and the participants are not limited to high-ranking officials, but also clans, nobles and the like.

In fact, there are only a few occasions a year for such great ceremonies to be attended by hundreds or even thousands of people.

This kind of great court meeting is said to be the emperor receiving ministers to discuss matters, but let alone in the Tang Dynasty, even in other traditional dynasties, it has become a kind of ceremony. In the great court meeting with hundreds or even thousands of people It's not nonsense to discuss national affairs!

The big guy gets up early in the morning to prepare, and he has to stand for at least one morning, let alone sit, even if he moves a little bit, he will be disrespectful before impeachment. .

Even Li Xuan himself would suffer a lot in such a big court meeting!

You have to get up at five o'clock in the morning. You must know that in normal times, even if it is a small court meeting, he will get up at seven o'clock, and usually go to work in the front hall at eight o'clock.

I have to get up before 5 in the morning, wash up under the service of a group of people, put on the dragon robe, have a simple breakfast, then run to greet the Empress Dowager Bai, and then arrive on time at about 7 o'clock Great Hall!

Then sit on the tall golden dragon chair, wearing gold silk embroidered dragon patterns on his body, a large dragon robe that wants to be passed on to help several people, with a luxurious but extremely heavy crown on his head, and a statue of a god. Like, sitting motionless on the dragon chair to receive the minister's kneeling gift!

In the early years, Li Xuan quite enjoyed the feeling of being shouted long live by thousands of people or even more at the same time, but after more than ten years, he just lost this feeling, and sometimes he felt like sitting down. The self on the dragon chair is like a puppet, a bit of an idiot.

However, this kind of big court meeting has been the tradition of the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years. The Tang Dynasty prided itself on being the orthodox Central Plains Dynasty, and it also paid attention to benevolence and filial piety to govern the country and restore Zhou etiquette, so many of these traditional etiquettes are not easy. abandon the change.

Fortunately, this kind of great meeting usually only happens once or twice a year, and it has little impact.

The day-to-day meeting of government affairs is still a small-scale routine meeting. As for daily work, it is mainly based on daily morning meetings, regular meetings, and reviewing papers.

It can be seen how important it is to review the papers, and the secretariat, which has the authority to organize the papers, actually has a very large power, but although the actual power is great, the restrictions given by Li Xuan are also very large.

First of all, not all officials in the secretariat have this power. Only the first-class secretary, the director of the academy, the deputy director, and the accompanying secretary who are really involved in the work of sorting out the booklet do not have this authority, and the following second-class, The third-level secretary also does not have this authority, and only a dozen first-level secretaries have this authority.

All the first-class secretaries of the secretariat, that is, those first-class secretaries who have the right to participate in the organization of portfolios, are basically selected by Li Xuan himself, and they must be solitary ministers, but those who have contact with external ministers , is basically unlikely to become a first-class secretary, and is strictly monitored by Hantong, once there is any wrongdoing, it is basically over.

However, even so, it is difficult to completely guarantee that there will be no problems.

After all, any system has loopholes, and all Li Xuan can do is to improve the system as much as possible and strictly control it.

Otherwise, he would have to review hundreds of papers in person, which is impossible. Even if he does nothing for a day, it is impossible for him to review so many papers.

It is necessary to take some of the power to the disadvantage, but there must be a controlled disadvantage, so that the ministers can restrain each other.

This system has not had any major problems since Li Xuan was established. As for whether there will be any problems in the future, it is possible, but Li Xuan also has no good solution.

Whether it is the cabinet system and the supervisor system of the former Ming Dynasty, or the military aircraft department system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are actually many defects.

In this world, it is impossible to have a truly perfect system without any loopholes.

Today, Li Xuan reviewed the papers as usual. After dealing with military affairs and some personnel changes, he saw Chen Lifu's papers.

Although Chen Lifu's account is only about ordinary government affairs, Chen Lifu is a person with a name on Li Xuan's side. Basically, the secretaries in the secretariat all know that this person is Jian Zai Di Xin. , Li Xuan will usually let Li Xuan personally review the documents he sends.

In addition to Chen Lifu's personal factors, it is also related to the content of this handbook. This is about the merger of Shanghai County, and Shanghai is currently the largest industrial and commercial city in the empire, and its weight is very heavy. This kind of thing is naturally also It needs to be handled by Li Xuan himself.

In addition, the review opinions of the Imperial Study Room were inconsistent with the review opinions of the Department of Commerce and Industry of the Hanlin Academy~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is also the reason why the first-class secretaries of the secretariat gave this book to Li Xuan for review.

The combination of the three aspects is to make this booklet, in today's hundreds of booklet, its priority sequence is listed in the top ten.

Li Xuan picked it up and first read the detailed content on the booklet. In fact, the content of the booklet was very simple. The point was to merge Shanghai, Huating and Jiading counties.

And the minister on duty in the imperial study clearly expressed his opposition.

However, the business department of the Hanlin Academy believes that it has certain merits.

As for Li Xuan himself, after a brief look, the first impression is that this Chen Lifu seems to be going to create a big Shanghai!

It is reasonable to combine this with the development of Shanghai in later generations. The development of Shanghai is also a process of expansion, from a single county in the past, to Greater Shanghai, and then to almost the entire Songjiang Prefecture.

However, what the cabinet said is also justified. Shanghai in later generations is actually no different from Songjiang Prefecture today.

Although Shanghai in later generations was only a city, there were also various districts below it. Today, Songjiang Prefecture also has various counties, and the difference between counties and districts is not big.

The key to the development of Songjiang Prefecture or Shanghai is not the administrative merger or not, but the connection of various regions, or, more simply, the distribution of benefits.

And this, if it is merged, it will be handled by the Shanghai County Yamen after the merger, and before the merger, it will be handled by the current Songjiang Prefecture Yamen.

The essence does not change too much!