Wife's Observation Log

Ordinary morning court, ordinary talks, and ordinary memorials.

But maybe with Lan Wei around to provide tempting pleasure, Xie Zhen actually realized more and more that his workload was a bit too much.At that time, Emperor Changning often had two prime ministers to help—from Li Shanchang + Xu Da Naren, to Hu Weiyong + Wang Guangyang, and then to the combination of Hu Weiyong + Xie Zhen, at least three people shared the responsibility in the highest administrative authority of the government.

But since Emperor Changning sent Wang Guangyang away without mentioning anyone, Xie Zhen investigated and wiped out Hu Weiyong's family, and then the position was suspended. Emperor Changning himself abdicated and stopped working. Xie Zhen could only do the work of three people.It's not that she can't finish it, after all, sometimes things don't need to be discussed. It's a lot faster to do it, but no matter what, there is just no time.

She said that it was absurd that the day after the memorial was approved, it seemed to be easy, but in fact the next day when Lan Wei was sleeping late, she had to get up before the morning court to review the documents that might be used in the morning court.

However, she did think about the follow-up solution to this problem long ago, and she didn't want to set the position of prime minister anymore.What she thought couldn't be summed up simply by centralization of power. On the contrary, she felt that it was the centralization of prime minister's power that caused the prime minister to have a very bad influence once his morals became corrupt and he formed a party for personal gain.

The same is true for monarchy. Xie Zhen feels that it is unreasonable to inherit the highest power by blood. Once a faint king asks the last sentence, "Why don't you eat minced meat", no one will understand the suffering of the people.But it is one aspect to know that the system itself is unreasonable, and it is another aspect to get the power to maximize its effectiveness. Let’s put it aside, Xie Zhen asked his student and heir this question today: "Nai Nai, what do you think? Who can join the cabinet in Beijing?"

Yes, Xie Zhen intends to form a cabinet, but in Xie Zhen's vision, this is just to reduce the Ministry of Education and increase the authority of the six ministries and other departments.

The prime minister must not want it anymore; the former deputy of the prime minister, the Chanzhizhengshi, is commonly known as the Zaizhi, um... the name of the Chanzhizhengshi can be kept, and used to give titles to the chief officials of the ministries, so that The new counselors will continue to advise and inform political affairs, but the real power has gone, and they are not allowed to approve and deal with the work of other departments at will; then the other officials of the Zhongshu Province can be eliminated, and the Tongzheng Envoy and the Imperial Academy will choose It is enough for some people to add a title of executive councilor to be responsible for the actual clerical work.

After dealing with this, Xie Zhen planned to let these people come to Wenyuan Pavilion for meetings every five days. Depending on the needs, such as discussing the protocol, he would also arrange for the Minister of Honglu Temple to attend the meeting as a non-voting delegate.In short, at the meeting, the specific national administrative work will be directly discussed, and the principles and policies will be determined. By the way, all the departments that need to cooperate with each other will be settled at the meeting, and then the work can be handled by themselves.

The council executives have to go to the palace for shifts, and the memorials are sorted out by categories and sent to various ministries. The departments come up with a summary of the solutions and submit them to Xie Zhen, and refuse exaggerated rhetoric. Official affairs must be concise and to the point.

"Sister Huang, actually Nana doesn't understand a little bit."

Xie Zhen's eyes signaled her to speak directly, and Jing Yun asked her: "Then what are you doing in the morning?"

Xie Zhen smiled and said, "I'll focus on you first, how do you think I want to deal with the morning court?"

"Miss Huang wants to replace the early court with the cabinet meeting? But that will alienate the middle-level officials of the various ministries and be easily deceived. I think it should not be done..."

Jing Yun was only nine years old, and entered school later than Xie Zhen himself, so Xie Zhen was already satisfied with her answer, so he gave the answer directly without further enlightening the child: "We were originally one day a day. Chao, Shuowang Great Dynasty, but the Japanese Dynasty is actually not necessary, it is better to take the Shuowang etiquette nature of the court as a regular court, so that the last time I saw a Beijing official above the fifth rank in half a month-civilian and military officials counted-and then there would be Supervising the censor, the six divisions, and the members of each department, Wailang, is about the same."

In fact, the role of most of the early courts is similar to the cabinet meeting Xie Zhen envisioned. It is basically a meeting of some key officials, but to be honest, how can most departments have so many important things to report?As a result of going to court every day, things became more and more trivial. Xie Zhen really thought they were wasting time for a long time.Furthermore, can the officials who desperately restrained their yawns in the early morning return to the official office really be able to deal with affairs in good spirits?

Of course, it is easy to be scolded for not being diligent in governing because of the lack of leadership, but Xie Zhen thinks that it is always the last word to talk about achievements, and redundant governance will not last long.

Going back to Xie Zhen's first question to Jing Yun, now Jing Yun has the answer: "Six ministers, the censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the envoy of the general government, and the minister of Dali Temple. I don't know what to do with the army."

"Okay, let's talk about civil servants first?" Xie Zhen led Jing Yun to the table, picked up a pen and wrote down all the answers he just said on paper for her, "The six servants are not a big problem, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also necessary. However, although the Tongzheng Envoy is the head of the Nine Ministers, he is only responsible for dismantling the four chapters, distributing civilian information to the six departments, and sending military affairs to the five armies. It is meaningless to discuss actual government affairs with him.”

"Hmm..." Xie Zhen suddenly started to think about another question. If it were to be changed to a cabinet system, she would not be satisfied with the current departmental division of labor.

There is nothing wrong with the bureaucracy.

It is also reasonable for the Ministry of Households to be in charge of the state’s financial expenditures, but if the state prints banknotes in the future, should it be managed by the Ministry of Households? If it is managed by the Ministry of Households, it will budget, print money and collect taxes. However, Xie Zhen wanted to put it in the cabinet to intervene in this matter, and two ministers were not enough.

The same is true for the Ministry of Rites. Sacrifice, ethnicity, diplomacy, and education are all under its control. Xie Zhen had long wanted to separate the Imperial Academy and Guozijian to supervise education. Maybe it could be called Yucai Academy.

Xie Zhen has taken back the Ministry of Punishment's function of formulating and reviewing laws, and there is nothing wrong with the rest itself, but because the Yan Dynasty has a three-jurisdiction system, the Ministry of Punishment is only the highest judicial organ and the preliminary review organ for the verdicts of cases above imprisonment and imprisonment. Dali Temple is the highest review organ, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the highest supervisory organ.If Xie Zhen wants to inquire about the judiciary, he has to bring the chief officials of the three agencies. But, Dali Temple is a bit troublesome because it can be placed in the same place as Taichang Temple, Taipu Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Honglu Temple. In the system—how about changing it to Dali Yuan, Xie Zhen thought so.

There is no problem with the Ministry of Industry. Xie Zhen did not put the Tiangong Institute under the Ministry of Industry from the beginning. The Ministry of Industry is engaged in construction, transportation, and water conservancy, and the Tiangong Institute is engaged in scientific and technological development, which is in line with the functions Xie Zhen wants. divided.

The army that Jing Yun doesn't understand——

Xie Zhen smiled bitterly in his heart, it was indeed difficult.

The key military department is only concerned with mobilizing troops but not commanding them. In Beijing, there are Jingwei and Qinjunwei. It can be said that Jingwei used to be managed by Chang Yuan. The local garrison is the capital, but other places are still fighting. The generals still have a lot of soldiers in their hands. Except for Feng Sheng, who is clearly dispatched to the capital for training. That's why Li Wenzhong was in Beijing when Xu Da went against the flag, and Xie Zhen asked Li Wenzhong to command the troops including the Jingwei, because contrary to the Jingwei trained by Chang Yuan, Li Wenzhong's own troops still don't have cages that can be well equipped to hand over at any time. give others.

Xie Zhen rubbed his forehead, at least a general united front department should be added here.

"Then Miss Huang just wants to change it to six departments and four courts? Are the four courts set up as political advisors according to the two chief officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, or one chief official of the emperor's sister-in-law's Tiangong Academy?"

Xie Zhen's thoughts drifted to Lan Wei for a second, and then suddenly recalled the topic of "aggression" that had been shelved that day. The matter of Ci'er was clear, but there was no consensus on whether to fight the actual naval battle or not. , Why did he lose his head and let Chang Yuan go?

Annoyed, Xie Zhen didn't put aside his thoughts: "Four courts are not enough, one banknote law, at least five more military courts, and finally six departments and ten courts. The military affairs can be left to Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and the others. Discuss restructuring."

"The chief officer's affairs, even if it is your emperor's wife's department, but since you want to entrust more important responsibilities, you must prevent the risk of arbitrariness. Naturally, you need two chief officials, but each department can only have one person in the cabinet, and the same is true for the six departments. " Xie Zhen stopped to think for a while, "For example, I would choose Zhang Lin, the minister in charge of taxation, to join the cabinet, but the division of labor is almost as important as the two ministers. good."

"However, I am indeed hesitating whether to let your sister-in-law into the cabinet." When Xie Zhen said the word "sister-in-law", he would always be a little inconveniently satisfied. It is true that Lan Wei has been beaten and can never be relieved. Belonging to Xie Zhen's brand, even if it is thousands of years old, it will be inspired by later generations from the jade certificate and the annals of history.However, she didn't want to prevent Lan Wei from joining the cabinet because she wanted to have this brand on her body, but she felt very practically that Lan Wei was far from being so sophisticated about government affairs, and that the Tiangong Institute had too little involvement with other departments. She has not really formed her own political capital, at least at the moment it is absolutely not suitable to join the cabinet as a civil servant-even if Xie Zhen forcefully points out her preference, she can only sit on the bench in the cabinet meeting.

Xie Zhen knew that Lan Wei had her own thoughts, such as the topic she almost forgot, she just didn't want Lan Wei's honor, disgrace, integrity, and insight, which were nourished by the time and space with more solid warehouses and better food and clothing, to be ruled by herself. The power under the swaying and killing.

So no matter how you respect your lover, no matter how you know she can become a shining figure.

But instinctively, she always wanted to escort Lan Wei for a while longer.

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