Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 603 Zhongshu Province becomes a ceremonial supervisor?
In the Qianyuan Palace, Zhang Tie did not go to Dafu or Gao Eniang for the first time, nor did he go to any favorite concubine, but came to the bedroom of Empress Cao Yanxi.

In the past two months or so, Zhang Ting had three more children, and Cao Yanxizhao finally gave birth to a little prince again. It was regarded as a double insurance, and since then the haze has disappeared, and he looks radiant.

At the same time, Cao Yanmian also gave birth to a baby boy as he wished, and Sefiye, the princess of Saman Persia, also added a small padded jacket for Zhang Tie.

Cao Yanxi didn't expect that Zhang Ting would come, and Zhang Ting didn't let anyone inform her. She was about to send the three crying babies away, but Zhang Ting stopped her.

Zhang Tie, who has been busy dealing with various emergencies recently, rarely let go of everything, amused with the three little dolls, and comforted Queen Cao Yanxi at night.

This is really comforting, Cao Yanxi is just out of confinement, not suitable for other things.

Moreover, Zhang Yu could also feel that Cao Yanxi was under a lot of pressure. She had been trying her best to keep up with the nervous pace to be a qualified queen.

The queen at this time is not comparable to the queens of later generations, especially the queens after the Northern Song Dynasty.

For example, the empress of the Ming Dynasty only had a little power when she was promoted to empress dowager and the prince was young.

But at this time, the queen can be called a saint. When the emperor goes out to fight, the queen will directly come to the court and call the housekeeper.

During the period of Zhuangzong Li Cunxu, Empress Liu was extremely powerful, and her decrees were once better than Li Cunxu's.

Although this situation will not exist in Zhang Ke, Cao Yanxi's power is actually not small.

For example, when Zhang Bing conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xichong, Fan Zhi, etc. discussed major national affairs, and they had to be reported to Queen Cao Yanxi for approval before they could be implemented.

At that time, Li Jing refused to give in, and Zhang Tie was going to recruit another [-] troops to go south to Huainan. This was also what Cao Yanxi urged the officials to complete as soon as possible.

But precisely because the queen's power is quite strong, the pressure on Cao Yanxi is even greater.

While she had to do her part well, she also had to be vigilant against the further expansion of the Cao family's influence. It was no less than [-] times that the Cao family's children who she blocked came to ask for an official.

The clansmen didn't understand her, and felt that the Cao family was so rich now that there were a lot of lack of official positions in the court, how about giving them some official functions?They are all complaining that Cao Yanxi turned his face and refused to recognize anyone.

On Cao Yanxi's side, knowing Zhang Ting's character well, he can only block these annoying things by himself, and prevent Zhang Ting from being affected, which is also very tiring.

While watching Cao Yanxi fall asleep with a beautiful smile, Zhang Ting couldn't sleep a bit. It was almost the first day of the year, and he still had three big things to do next.

The first is to solve the problem of the hollowing out of Liangzhou. If it was in the Han and Tang Dynasties, it would be possible to move the wealthy households from all over the world to Liangzhou.

But he can't do it now, because nearly 200 years of turmoil have passed by this time. Although the intensity cannot be compared with the end of Qin Dynasty and the end of Sui Dynasty, it is too frequent, and the situation of people's livelihood is quite miserable.

It's not that there are rich private households, but they are not so large that they need to be relocated to control them, and they are not the group Zhang Tie wants.

More importantly, strictly speaking, Liangzhou no longer belonged to the center of the empire after Zhang Tie entered the Central Plains, so Zhang Teng promoted Liangzhou as one of the five capitals in order to avoid its rapid decline.

In addition to serving as a major channel for exchanges between the Central Plains and Anxi, Liangzhou was also the core source of force for Zhang Tie and the rear of the westward conquest.

Therefore, in addition to being relatively wealthy, the word Wu must be added, which is precisely the goal that cannot be achieved by relocating wealthy households.

Excluding this method, Zhang Ting could only focus on the Guanzhong people closest to Hexi.

Because before that, when Zhang Teng left Tongguan, he brought six thousand passers-by, and another four thousand were recruited before the attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty. About 5000 people were recruited.

The most important thing is that in Guanzhong, Zhang Tie took Tang Taizong Li Shimin as the benchmark. Many people in Guanzhong also believed that Zhang Tie was the reincarnation of Emperor Taizong Wen. This can be seen from Guan Zhongyi's performance on the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhang Ting's best solution at present is to resettle part of Guan Zhongyi to Liangzhou, and divide Liangzhou's fertile land into three parts.

The largest piece was rewarded to Guanzhong Yicong and his family members who had followed him, and the smaller ones were recruited from the Qingtang Plateau and high mountains to recruit some people of various ethnic groups.

In the last remaining small piece, Zhang Tie plans to move about 50,000 people from Guanzhong to Hexi.

As Zhang Ting's most important rear area, Hexi Longyou should still maintain the large-scale military system with four to five hundred acres of land, so that the Central Plains can dispatch troops to Guanzhong, and Anxi can quickly support them when there is an emergency.

As for Zhang Huaiqing, Zhang Tie still plans to transfer him back to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.

I, Zhang Shengren, are actually not afraid that my subordinates have a strong desire for power, because in his place, there are many high-ranking officials and generous salary to arrange people, but I am afraid that the subordinates have lost their aggressiveness.

Zhang Huaiqing is like this, he has lost all the courage and determination to fight, and there is no benefit in forcing him to stay in Chengtian Mansion in Xijing.

It's just that Pei Yuan let Pei Yuan be the left-behind and Chengtian governor of Xijing alone. The delegation of power is still a bit big. Now Pei Yuan can be trusted, but what about in the future?
And the second thing is Li Shengtian's coming to the west. According to Cao Liulang and Cao Yanlu's report, Li Shengtian had already left in July. Except for leaving Li Congde to supervise the country, Cao Yuanxin, Li Congyu and others were all taken by him.

Zhang Ting did not expect Li Shengtian to be so obsessed with going to the Central Plains, and he also felt that Li Shengtian even meant to live in the Central Plains.

But Anxi can't do without him now. How to lure his uncle, the emperor, back to Khotan, and then be a cow and horse guarding the west gate for a few years? This is a problem.

The last thing is the adjustment of the all-round political structure. What Zhang Tie is implementing now is a hybrid of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties system.

At the central level, there is a parallel pattern of Shangshu, Zhongshu, Menxia provinces and the Privy Council.

However, after running for a period of time, Zhang Tie discovered a large number of unclear overlapping of powers and evasion.

Because in fact the three provinces system has existed in name only after the mid-Tang Dynasty.

Many functions and powers of the Privy Council, as well as the court structure of the Later Liang Dynasty and the Later Tang Dynasty, overlap with the Three Provinces System.

The biggest problem is that the official position system of the three-province system is to assist the emperor. When it was originally designed, the emperor was imagined to be the standard of Tang Taizong.

But in fact, for so many years from ancient times to the present, how many emperors can be as diligent in political affairs as Tang Taizong, know the sufferings of the people, and accept advice with humility?
Especially under the door, the series of responsibilities, the emperor would not be able to carry out the duties if he had a little more capacity.

Therefore, the responsibilities of the three provinces gradually began to be divided by various missions that needed to obey the emperor's orders after Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the three provinces system will also lead to a high concentration of civil power to a certain extent. If a wise king can still control it, if he encounters a few less capable ones, he can only be played around.

Zhang Tie did not have the self-confidence of Tang Taizong. Tang Taizong was very confident in training his successors to be virtuous monarchs like him. Zhang Tie estimated that the mediocre masters should account for the majority of his descendants.

Of course, he didn't want to use the Tang Dynasty's method of cultivating heirs, so the three provinces system had to be changed from time to time.

Zhang Ting's idea is to completely change the Zhongshu Province, which has the closest relationship with the emperor, into the emperor's secretary team.

Change the position of Zhongshu Ling to a vacant position, and use it as a posthumous gift, and restore the official title of Tong Zhongshu, as the seal of the prime minister.

The actual chief of the Zhongshu Province is Zhongshu Shilang, who is in charge of submitting state affairs, announcing edicts, submitting ministers' memorabilia to the emperor for review, selecting, distinguishing between urgent and non-important, and presenting them to the emperor respectively.

As the emperor's most confidant attendant, there is one person in Zhongshu Zhigao who is in charge of books, book making, imperial edicts, edicts, and edicts.

There are six people in Zhongshushe, who correspond to the six departments of criminal affairs, military affairs, and responsible for class bookkeeping, edict making, and spot inspection. The rest of Fubao, Tongjin, Jinzuo, etc.

However, the official positions of Zhongshu Province, which were originally used to correct government deficiencies, improper employment, and officials breaking the law, will be merged into the door and saved.

At this point, the Zhongshu Province no longer held the duties of supervision and advice, and became the emperor's exclusive think tank and secretary group.

Zhang Ting even planned to let the officials of Zhongshu Province pass the special selection of Enke opened by the emperor instead of the ordinary imperial examination after the imperial examination was completed.

In fact, this has the taste of the Ming Dynasty's ceremonial supervisor. The general direction is similar, but there are only some differences in the specifics.

After accepting the official positions of left and right Sanqi Changshi, Sijian, Zhengyan, etc. given up by Zhongshu Province, the powers of refuting, supervising, and advising will be strengthened in Menxia Province.

At the same time, a large number of specific government affairs systems will come to Shangshu Province.

Zhang Ting planned to head Shangshu Zuopushe, who had joined Zhongshu Pingzhangshi, and Shangshu Youpushe as his deputy.

At the same time, some of the left servants of the six ministries will be given the title of participating in political affairs, so that they can also participate in state affairs like prime ministers.

In this way, Zhang Zhou's central power structure will become that the emperor personally appoints Zhongshu Ling, and the subordinates will be assigned servants, with Zhongshu Pingzhangshi, Shangshu Zuopushe, Shangshu Youpushe, and several political advisors as assistants. group phase.

Locally, the title of Ambassador Dao was actually established by Zhang Tie in order to suppress the power of the Jiedu Envoy. The full name is actually the original Jiedu Ambassador.

But now it is not applicable at all, not even the current state and county system is applicable.

But for these, Zhang Tie had to wait until Feng Dao and Zhao Ying came back before making arrangements.

(End of this chapter)