Valley Emperor

Regardless of the era or regime, military power is an extremely sensitive topic. First, it is the mind of the ruler, and secondly, the separation of civil and military officials.

Let's not mention the thoughts of emperors like Li Xuan, but only talk about the confrontation between civil officials and military officials. Since ancient times, this confrontation has been extremely serious regardless of whether it is Chinese or foreign, and I have rarely heard of any political regime where civil and military officials can be harmonious. get along.

Japan after the Meiji Restoration in later generations, and the modern United States, are all very serious in opposition!

Even within the military, the confrontation between the arms is equally serious!

Now someone from the tax department has proposed to build a tax inspection team, and it is still 2,000 people in size and equipped with the same equipment as the regular army. If this matter is exposed, it is estimated that many generals of the military will have considerable opinions!

In today's Tang Dynasty, whether it is a regular or auxiliary military force, it is actually related to the military. Needless to say, the regular army and the garrison army, even the robbery battalion on the ground, is the dual leadership of the military and the internal patrol department. , especially when it comes to combat missions, the military is basically commanded by the military itself, but it is not said that the patrol police department has the power to command alone.

The tax inspection team created by the Ministry of Taxation has caused dissatisfaction among some people in the military, but the current tax inspection team is relatively small and scattered, and at the same time, it is not involved in detailed combat affairs. When the incident occurs, it is necessary to ask the local garrison for help.

But now the Ministry of Taxation wants to set up a formal armed force such as the Tax Inspection Corps on its own, this kind of thing is intolerable on the military side.

In fact, it is not just the military, even Li Xuan himself feels that it is not suitable.

Although there was Song Ziwen's Tax Police Corps in later generations, it was a period of melee war between warlords, but it was such a single example.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Taxation belongs to the cabinet, and in the final analysis, it belongs to the civil service system. If the Ministry of Taxation has set up a tax inspection team, then the separation of civil and military that Li Xuan has been insisting on is a joke.

This example must not be opened!

I opened the report, and then directly typed a big X, and wrote a comment: "No!"

After thinking about it, he added another sentence: "In the future, all the agencies under the cabinet are not allowed to organize troops. This is a permanent rule!"

Li Xuan didn't plan to open his mouth, not even to those who came later!

Otherwise, there will be a tax inspection team from the tax department today, a patrol police team from the patrol police department tomorrow, and an inspection team from the inspectorate the day after tomorrow. , isn't it going to mess up!

The official and auxiliary military forces in the Tang Dynasty must belong to the Privy Council!

Even the Guards that Li Xuan intends to rebuild is no exception!

The Guards that Li Xuan intends to rebuild, although it is said to be directly under the Emperor's Guards, will also be placed under the Privy Council. Why?

Because the Guards are actually the same as the army, the garrison, the robbery camp, etc., they are all armed forces that only belong to Li Xuan. The emperor Li Xuan is the supreme commander of the Privy Council. The Privy Council does not have a president or vice president. The highest position 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. The military system is different from the regular army and the garrison, but in essence, it is still the Tang Dynasty. part of the military composition.

After writing the annotation, Li Xuan looked at the name on the memorial again, and after thinking for half a minute, he turned the bell on the table to the dark, and then came in outside the door of a reading attendant of the Hanlin Academy.

Li Xuan said: "Let Qian Yuli from the tax department come over in the afternoon!"

Qian Yuli, the former director of the Grain Collection Department of the Tax Department of the Datang Dynasty, is now the left servant of the Tax Department, and the second-in-command of the entire Datang tax system.

The servants of the Hanlin Academy wrote down and went out, while Li Xuan reviewed the other memorials again, and the rest were still big and small, and Li Xuan's speed of reviewing the memorials was always extremely fast!

Except for some special things, most of them simply annotate the word "read". If you read and write more, you will occasionally change to "understood".

Of course, for some more important matters, he will also leave a few more words or lines of comments, such as Sun Yawei, the prefect of Liping House, who reported on the excerpt that after the war in Liping House, people's livelihood withered, the homeless, and those without food rations There are many, please ask the court to give some money and grain to help the victims.

In this regard, Li Xuan's comment is: I have read it, and all the ministries of the cabinet will give relief quickly to prevent the livelihood of the disaster people from changing. The relief should be based on the work on behalf of the people. Who, sin plus three!

There is also the memorial that Ma Wei sent back. In addition to talking about the situation in Liuzhou Mansion, he also flattered and asked Li Xuan if his body was healthy. The weather was already cold. As the pillar of the Tang Dynasty, His Majesty must wear more clothes and take care of the dragon body.

Li Xuan commented: I am safe, it is a cold winter, please help the people of Liuzhou to survive the winter safely, don't let the road freeze to death, so my heart is at ease!

After reviewing such a memorial, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon before I knew it!

In fact, Li Xuan does not spend much time reviewing the memorials every day, because there is a Hanlin Academy under him. In fact, these Hanlins have already approved all the memorials except the secret ones in advance, and will also review some longer ones. The memorial made a summary for Li Xuan to read.

And recently, with the increasing number of memorials, Li Xuan also began to delegate certain powers to the Hanlins of the Hanlin Academy, that is, in addition to military affairs, when the Hanlins reviewed the memorials in advance, they would make a preliminary step. The handling opinion is placed in the memorial with blue banknotes. If Li Xuan feels that the handling opinion submitted by the Hanlin Academy can be used, he will usually choose it directly. Make a decision directly.

For example, in the above-mentioned memorial of Sun Yawei, in addition to the two sentences approved by Li Xuan, the Hanlin clerk in charge of the memorial also made two detailed solutions. The opinions on handling, including relief for the victims, where to collect money and food, how to supervise by the Inspectorate, how to deal with the refugees generated, etc.

Otherwise, Li Xuan would not be able to finish the memorials that he kept submitting every day!

However, in order to prevent the Hanlin Academy from overstepping its authority, Li Xuan strictly stipulated that the Hanlin Academy shall not withhold or change any memorials, and must be submitted in the original text.

At the same time, the final decision must be made by the emperor Li Xuan himself!

In other words, the Hanlin Academy only proposed a preliminary solution to Li Xuan, and often asked to provide more than two at the same time, but Li Xuan was the only one who really had the right to make a decision, and the Hanlin Academy did not make a decision. Powerful.

Li Xuan's positioning for the Hanlin Academy has always been very clear, that is, a secretarial agency to reduce the workload, not a power agency that can make any decisions!

But recently, he also felt that some of the Hanlins in the Hanlin Academy were all less capable, and many times the handling opinions formulated were unsatisfactory.

To this end, he is already preparing to carry out certain reforms in the Hanlin Academy, and continue to subdivide the various departments in the Hanlin Academy, expanding it to 28 departments, including military, civil affairs and other affairs. The section chiefs of these departments, It is also prepared to be transferred from some capable and practical middle-level officials of the Tang Dynasty.

And in order to prevent these section chiefs of the Hanlin Academy from being too powerful, he stipulated that all the section chiefs, deputy section chiefs and even ordinary staff members serving in the Hanlin Academy should not hold office for more than three years, and they may not change to other positions after three years. If you stay in Beijing, you must go to a local office. After three years, you can return to Beijing to serve. After six years, you can take office for the second time in the Hanlin Academy.

At the same time, it is stipulated that no internal promotion is allowed in the Hanlin Academy. That is to say, ordinary staff in the Hanlin Academy cannot be directly promoted to the deputy section chief and section chief within the Hanlin Academy. Get promoted outside.

At the same time, it is also strictly stipulated that Hanlin people are not allowed to associate with foreign officials, but those who have too close contacts with foreign officials will be strictly dealt with.

And those who leak the content of the memorial without permission will have their homes searched!

Those who secretly leak the contents of the military memorial will be punished by the nine clans!

In addition, there are many large and small systems designed to limit the power of the Hanlin Academy. There are hundreds of them. To sum up, this is a ban, and that is also a ban. Li Xuan wished that they could not do anything except review the memorials. In an airtight prison.

Well, in fact, he really did this. The Hanlin Academy was set up next to the temporary operation, and was guarded by a battalion of personal guards. Except for the Hanlins, no one was allowed to enter or leave.

On the one hand, Li Xuan delegated power to the Hanlin Academy, but on the other hand, he also placed layers upon layers of shackles on the Hanlin Academy, making them dance with shackles, in order to prevent the degeneration of the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy.

The Hanlin Academy created by Li Xuan is very different from the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the military aircraft of the Qing Dynasty. First of all, the biggest difference is that they actually do not have any decision-making power!

All the decision-making power is in Li Xuan's hands, and they have the right to make suggestions!

Moreover, Hanlin is different from Hanlin. Each department is responsible for only one aspect of the content. Even the department responsible for military affairs, Li Xuan is divided into as many as seven.

The reason why there are so many departments of the Imperial Academy is to divide them and rule them out, so as to avoid too much power in a certain department.

Because even the right to suggest, this kind of power is great for a feudal dynasty, and Li Xuan has to guard against it!

After processing the memorial, Huo Shouqi, a student of the Hanlin Academy, walked in and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, most of the people who came to face the saint have already arrived!"

Li Xuan said, "Has Qian Yuli arrived?"

Huo Shouqi said: "Master Qian has arrived, just waiting outside!"

Li Xuan snorted and said, "Let him in!"

Li Xuan wants to see Qian Yuli, naturally, not for the establishment of some tax inspection team, that is unreliable, because it involves the separation of civil and military, and the separation of military and government.

Li Xuan wants to see him, but for other things!