Late Tang

In the first year of Zhenlong, at the behest of Li Jing, Li Yi, the supervising army and state affairs king, formally wrote to the court of Chang'an, asking Youzhou Jicheng to be officially promoted to the sixth capital of the Tang Dynasty, with the capital as Xijing and the east as Tokyo. Change the northern capital to Yanjing. .The name of Fengxiang Mansion is Xijing, Chengdu is Nanjing, and Yanjing is Shangjing.Jingzhao Mansion in Zhongjing, Henan Mansion in Tokyo, Taiyuan Mansion in Yanjing, Chengdu Mansion in Nanjing, Fengxiang Mansion in Xijing, and Youzhou was changed to Shuntian Mansion, a total of six mansions and six capitals.

In Shangjing Shuntian Mansion, there is a left-behind imperial court, with Li Yi, the King of Jianguomu, guarding Shangjing to supervise the state affairs of the military, and Li Jing, King of Qin, who is a major military affairs in Pingzhang, as the left-behind of Shangjing, the Yin of Shuntian Mansion.At the same time, three provinces and six ministries were set up in Shangjing. One should be set up in imitation of the Chang'an court. The three provinces of Shangshu, Menxia, ​​and Zhongshu, and three departments, six ministries, five temples, and nine prisons.Li Jing took office as Shangjing Shangshuling, Zhongshuling, Shizhong, and Yushitai Yushi doctor.

Three provinces, six ministries, nine temples, five prisons, and three offices were newly established to merge with the ministries of the Qin Dynasty.After the merger, there are always six provinces in Shangjing. In addition to the three core provinces of Shangshu, Menxia and Zhongshu, there are also three provinces of Secretary, Dianzhong and Internal Servants to assist in the affairs of the court.In addition to the six ministries saved by Shangshu Province, there are nine temples whose functions are supplemented by the six ministries, and the Qin Dynasty also has 24 sub-level departments of finance, construction, and transportation. These eighteen divisions are not directly under the six ministries. , is a newly established department that reads out of the six departments and [-] departments.

The original Office of Supervision, Procuratorate and other offices are still retained. In addition to the original cabinet of the Qin Fan, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Staff Council, the scale of the central government of the Qin Fan has been greatly expanded, and the division of functions has become more clear.

In general, the structure of the Provincial Cabinet is still the same, with the three provinces, the Cabinet and the Staff Council, and the Five Armed Forces Governor's Office as the core.

Various ministries in Shangjing have been merged, reorganized or newly established one after another, and the power structure of the entire Yanjing has been reshuffled again.

Li Jing also took this opportunity to switch important officials in the center.

Cui Yunqing and Li Zhen of Shangshu Province were left and right servants. Li Jing transferred them to the second province of Menxia and Zhongshu. Other officials of Shangshu Province were also transferred to the two newly established provinces, and then officials and ministers were transferred from various local provinces. A copy of Yanjing officials was formed to form a new Shangshu province.At the same time, the cabinet has also completed a change of term. The former cabinet bachelors were transferred to the localities, and the new cabinet bachelors were appointed by highly respected scholars from various academies and colleges.Even the General Staff Council and the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army have been transferred together with the Ministry of War.

In a short period of time, Li Jing made a major adjustment to the upper echelons of the entire Qin clan. The purpose was naturally to prevent people from being in charge of the Yamen for a long time, especially because the prime ministers of the political affairs hall who participated in political affairs held the Yaya for a long time, which made the ministers Li Jing's power is too great to affect and restrain Li Jing's monarchy.Long ago, Li Jing set the term of office for each official position, this is not empty talk.

For example, Shang Shusheng's left and right servants, this is the prime minister and the second prime minister. Li Jing has long stipulated that they will be elected every five years, with a maximum of two consecutive years.After the expiration, you have to transfer to another position.According to Li Jing's system, the chief officials of each province in the future, such as Shangshu Province's left and right servants, Menxia province's left and right servants, Zhongshu province's Zhongshu left and right servants, etc. must have the experience of serving as a governor in the local area before they can be selected.After one term at least, and two terms at most, the chief officials of the three provinces will either retire or have to switch to other central provinces according to the system.The second time the three central provinces serve, they can only serve for one term of five years. After the sea, they will either increase their honorary titles such as Bachelor, or Taifu, and become the Qin King's advisor and ignore specific affairs, or they will be transferred to a local province to serve as the governor.

This is a strict rule. The chief officials of the three provinces must first have the experience of serving as a local governor, and then they must have served as chief officials in the six ministries before they can become the chief officials of the three provinces.After the prime minister enters the three provinces, he can be re-elected for two consecutive terms for the first time, up to ten years.Then it must be transferred to the other two provinces in the three provinces, or transferred to the local province.For the second time, the chief officials of the three central provinces can only serve for one term. After the term expires, they have to leave the post, or be transferred to the local area, or become an advisor to the King of Qin with honorary titles, regardless of specific practices.

The same is true for other major central government positions. Cabinet members can only be selected from colleges and academies who are highly respected and over 50 years old. They cannot be re-elected after a maximum of two terms.

The General Staff Council, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and the three offices of the Ministry of War, which share military power, strictly stipulate that they cannot be re-elected.

Although such a system will have some disadvantages, for example, some virtuous ministers may be restricted by the term of office, and cannot continue to serve after the term expires.However, Li Jing believes that the advantages of shortening the term of office of officials still outweigh the disadvantages.The flow of the entire official system will greatly increase the centralization of the central government and the monarchy, and prevent the occurrence of the power minister or the decline of the functions of various ministries.Similarly, this is also a way to enhance the authority of the monarch and balance the power of the various phases in the setting of the Qin feudal official system.

Under Li Jing's current authority, this new reform was quickly enacted.

Cui Yunqing was transferred to Liaoxi Province as governor, retaining the honorary title of prime minister of Tongping Zhangshi and the honorary title of Taifu, but she is no longer a member of the political affairs hall meeting, which means that she is no longer the real prime minister.Li Zhen, the right servant of Shangshu, was transferred to the post of Zuo Shilang under the Zhongshu province. According to the new system, the six chief officials of the three provinces are directly the counselors of the Zhengshitang, and they are the prime ministers.Therefore, Li Zhen is still the real prime minister.However, when he transferred from Shangshu Province to Menxia Province, he also left from the position of second prime minister. According to the system, the Prime Minister was appointed by Shangshu Sheng Zuo Pushe, and the second prime minister was appointed by Shang Shusheng You Pushe.

Li Jing nominated Zheng Congxuan for the new post of Shangshu Province Zuo Pushe, and Zheng Ting for the second prime minister.The result of this worship has surprised many people.Although the two Zhengs are very famous in the world, they are the ministers of Li and Tang after all, and they have defected to Qin Fan not long ago.It was hard for them not to be shocked that the King of Qin actually directly worshiped the two as their prime ministers, and also served as the prime minister and the second prime minister respectively, in charge of the core department of Shangshu province.However, many people immediately thought that both Zheng Congxuan and Zheng Tian were awarded by Li Jing as governors of the newly established provinces in Northeast China a few years ago, and this position has just been completed for one year.But in terms of the system, the two have the resumes of the local provincial governors, which is completely in line with the requirements that the chief officials of the three provinces must first have the resumes of the provincial governors.Moreover, the two were transferred back to Yanjing from the Northeast last month, and both served as ministers in each of the six departments for a month.From an institutional point of view, there is nothing wrong with their worship.But from the other side, it can be seen that this was planned by the King of Qin long ago. In order for them to worship the prime minister, he had already started paving the way for them a year ago.

The new political affairs hall was established. This time, a total of thirteen ministers were appointed to participate in political affairs and worshiped as prime ministers.Six chief officials from the three provinces, plus three ministers from the Ministry of History, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War, as well as two each from the Staff Council and the Dudufu of the Five Armies, made a total of thirteen prime ministers.However, in the new system, the cabinet in the Yazhong of the core department stipulates that they are not allowed to pay homage to the prime minister.The role of the cabinet itself is to balance power, therefore, the cabinet is not allowed to enter the political affairs hall.However, the power of the cabinet has not been reduced at all. This time, the cabinet members have been expanded from the original nine to thirteen cabinet members.

The first assistant of the new cabinet is Sikong Tu, a famous scholar, and the second assistant is Zheng Gu, one of the ten philosophers of Fanglin from Jiangxi.Thirteen cabinet members were all awarded the title of Grand Bachelor of Wenhua Pavilion.

There are thirteen prime ministers in the Zhengshitang, and thirteen cabinet bachelors in the Wenhua Pavilion.

At the same time as this round of major adjustments to the Qin Fan's center, Li Jing also made a major adjustment to the local area.

In April of the first year of Zhenlong, the Northeast region has basically stabilized, and Qin Fan has gained full control.Also in this month, Li Jing officially issued an order to confer the title of Duke of Shunguo on behalf of the imperial court on behalf of the king of Bohai Sea, the former Bohai Sea region and other regions in Northeast China, from the sea in the east to the Mongolian plateau outside the Greater Khingan Mountains where Huangshui originates in the west. At the eastern end, this vast area, including Lake Baikal in the North Sea, is divided into provinces and state counties.

In areas other than the Yanshan Mountains, in addition to the four provinces of Liaodong, Liaoxi, Andong, and Rehe, eight new provinces were established: Haidong, Liaoning, Jilin, Songjiang, Hejiang, Heishui, Nenjiang, and Xing'an. , divided into thirteen provinces.From Bohai Bay in the south, Kushuo Island in the east, Wai Xing'an Mountains in the north, and Beihai outside the Da Xing'an Mountains in the west, this vast area is the land of the Qin Dynasty's thirteen provinces outside the customs.

In Guanzhong, there are five provinces of Beiping, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, and Huaihai. In addition, there are Qin Zongquan's Shannan Province, Yangxing Province's Jiangbei Province, Qian Liu's Jiangnan Province, and Dong Chang's East Zhejiang Province. Eight provinces, Zhang Rui's Fujian Province, Yu Gui's Lingdong Province, Yu Qiu's Lingxi Province, and Yu Cong's Annan Province were eight provinces that honored the Qin Fan in name.

There are [-] provinces actually controlled by Qin Fan, and [-] provinces under the alliance's surname.In addition, there are three giant islands on the sea, Ryukyu Island, Hainan Island, and Tamna Island. However, the three islands have a large territory, but their population is too small for the time being, so they only set up a state for each.

There are more than [-] prefectures in [-] provinces, with a population of more than [-] million.

On the newly printed map of the world, the red Qin Fan area accounts for one-third of the traditional territory.And if the vast territory of the Northeast newly opened up by the Qin Fan is counted, then the area actually controlled by the Qin Fan has even exceeded half of the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at the map, Li Jing couldn't help feeling a surge of pride.

But just when Li Jing looked at the map and thought that it might be time to start expanding to the southeast coastal areas, Dong Chang of his eight alliance towns proclaimed himself emperor.

This was news that surprised Li Jing, and it was also news that made Li Jing feel bad for a moment.

And soon, Li Jing received another letter from Qian Liu. This letter had been on the road for almost half a month and had just been delivered to Yanjing.The content of the letter made Li Jing's face even more gloomy. Qian Liu jumped out so impatiently that he wanted to help Li Jing wipe out Dong Chang and restore his reputation. This made Li Jing keenly realize that Dong Chang became emperor The matter is not simple.

According to the inference of whoever gains the most and who is the most suspicious, the one who benefited the most from Dong Chang's proclaiming the emperor is undoubtedly Qian Liu, so it is very likely that Qian Liu is also the biggest black hand behind this matter.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing immediately asked Zhao Jiang to go forward and let the new members of the Political Affairs Hall and the new cabinet members come to the Qinzheng Hall to discuss matters, and also called the Supervisory Office and the military's three government officials in Beijing to attend the meeting together. . (To be continued.)