Chapter 1303 Kingdom
On the pier, all the shifts on duty came to meet the guards.
Qin Lang smiled, "There is no need to engage in ostentation, we in Luzon must be pragmatic."
San Francisco Governor Qin Yong said, "Sanlang, you are also the majestic King of Luzon, how can you not have the slightest guard of honor."
However, at Qin Lang's insistence, Zhu Banzhi put away some guards of honor.
It was only March when we left Chang'an, and it was still very cold when we passed the Qinling Mountains. At this time, it was only May, but it was as hot as a furnace.
Didn't stay at the pier for long, everyone embraced Qin Lang and entered San Francisco, straight into Yacheng.
Qin Lang went directly to Houya, jumped into the swimming pool for a swim, Qin Yong and others were also called into the water, and after swimming, they lay down on the bamboo chair under the pergola drinking cold drinks and began to talk about things.
"The imperial court has newly established the Privy Council to take charge of the military." Qin Yong said with a smile.
Qin Lang took a sip of sour plum soup, and said helplessly, "I didn't expect that some of the ideas I talked about in the past, but now he actually adopts them."
"Saburo previously planned to set up a cabinet, Privy Council, Knights' Council, and Executive Council in Luzon. As soon as we set up the shelf, the imperial court snatched it up. What should we do?"
Before Qin Lang went to meet Li Shimin for the last time, he had actually started to build Luzon's organizational structure in Luzon. Although Luzon had the name of the Governor's Mansion, Luzon was not a real member of the Tang administrative system after all. The set of governors and governors is a bit too thin for a relatively independent Luzon, especially for future generations, Luzon must have its own central team.
The organizational structure he proposed is that the Executive Yuan is in charge of administration, the Privy Council is in charge of military affairs, the cabinet is in charge of decision-making, and the Knights’ Court is in charge of deliberation. This is because when Qin Lang controls Luzon, of course there will be no major issues. question.
But in the future, Qin Lang's descendants may not have as much prestige as he takes over the Luzon Mansion, and even future descendants may not have the ability to truly govern Luzon.
Considering these, he plans to build a relatively safe and reliable management structure.
The focus of this framework is naturally decentralization.
If the Luzon Governor’s Mansion now governs the entire Luzon, then in the future, when the future governors are not capable enough, then the second official such as Chang Shi or Sima may take power, or even sway the power of the governor.
So in the long run, we have to avoid this situation in advance.
"Since the emperor has already used this Privy Council first, then we in Luzon have to avoid suspicion and change the name."
"Changed to the Military Aircraft Department."
Divide the powers of the original Dudu Mansion into four.
The core of the Executive Yuan is the Six Caos, above the Six Caos are naturally Chang Shi and Sima, but Qin Lang's design is to virtualize the power of Chang Shi and Sima, and the administrative power of the Executive Yuan is directly handed over to the Six Caos. The six Caos participate in the military and are actually responsible for administrative affairs, each responsible for one piece.
Chang Shi and Sima are equivalent to the masters and teachers of the governor, with honorable names, but actually have no authority.
This is just like the six ministries in the Ming Dynasty. Ming Taizu abolished the prime minister, so the power belonged to the six ministries. The power of the six ministries in the Ming Dynasty, especially before the middle and late Ming Dynasty, far surpassed that of other dynasties such as the Tang and Song Dynasties, because there were no ministers in the six ministries. The prime minister, they actually divided part of the power.
Of course, Ming Taizu abolished the prime minister and the practice of returning the imperial court to the six ministries also led to an imbalance of power, so the cabinet that later served as the assistant to the emperor's secretary quickly and slowly surpassed the six ministers and became a nameless the prime minister.
Because the cabinet controlled the power of the prime minister, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could only patch it up again, and use his trusted eunuchs and eunuchs to exercise the power of approving Zhu Hong on behalf of him.
In this way, in fact, the highest central power distribution in the Ming Dynasty was the cabinet's decision-making, the deliberation of the ceremonial supervisor, and the implementation of the six ministries. Such a general situation achieved a relative power balance.
Before the Ming Dynasty used the eunuchs who were in charge of ceremonies to balance power, it actually planned to use the Six Divisions to restrain the cabinet and the Six Ministries. power, even giving them the right to impeach, but it did not achieve the required balancing function.
On the contrary, the affairs of the Sixth Division went completely awry. These low-ranking and powerful officials, because their career promotion was still influenced by the cabinet ministers, so in the end, they often became cabinet ministers. Their mouthpiece has become a tool of party struggle.
As a last resort, the emperor finally used eunuchs, the only servants of the emperor who he believed in the most and the only ones still available. The eunuchs could not be of the same mind with the cabinet and the civil servants of the six ministries. The central power troika at the time of death.
Throughout the dynasties and dynasties, although the names of official positions are different, in general, they are inseparable from the core of power division and mutual restraint.
The emperor can only control the court through this method of decentralization.
For Luzon, the Luzon Dudufu is just a government-level administrative agency, while the counties and prefectures in Datang are all unitary.
If Luzon is only used as a capital under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, then this structure is beneficial, but if it is used as an external fiefdom, an autonomous independent kingdom, this is of course not good.
Just like the chaos of the Tang Dynasty in history, in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the feudal towns were separated, and most of the feudal towns existed in the form of feudal towns, controlling one or two or several states. It is similar to the Dudufu, but it also has many powers such as administrative supervision and justice.
But in the final analysis, the Jiedu Fanzhen is still a unitary system, so the Late Tang Dynasty has experienced a long period of separatism, and the civil strife in the Fanzhen has become more serious. In essence, this organizational structure has inherent deficiencies.
During the Five Dynasties such as Houliang and Later Tang, this congenital defect could be changed by annexing other feudal towns and then establishing a dynasty and establishing a country.
It was not until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty that those big pits were completely improved, and it has entered a stable period since then.
The Chief History and Sima of the Executive Yuan have no actual power, and the power is directly assigned to the Liu Cao Can Military, who are in charge of the administration of Luzon.
The cabinet is responsible for decision-making.
The members of the cabinet are selected by the Luzon Metropolitan Governor, awarded the title of bachelor, and then joined the cabinet as assistants. In essence, the cabinet bachelors belong to the secretary assistants of the Luzon Metropolitan Governor. They actually exercise the power of the Metropolitan Governor, so their decision-making power It's actually a suggestion.
Procedurally, the affairs of Luzon's counties are reported layer by layer, and finally reported to the six Caos in charge. Liu Cao gave the first disposition opinion, and then reported it to the cabinet. The cabinet scholars discuss with the Metropolitan Governor, or on behalf of the Metropolitan Governor, first negotiate a resolution, and then submit it to the Metropolitan Governor in the form of a draft.
Under normal circumstances, the governor will approve the votes of the bachelors, but considering that in the future, not all the descendants of the Qin family will have the same ability as Qin Lang, so Qin Lang prepared in advance and set up a special organization, similar to The supervisor of ceremonies came to approve the red on behalf of the governor.
Originally he planned to call this institution the Privy Council, but unexpectedly the emperor created a Privy Council first, which also specialized in military affairs, so Qin Lang had to change the name.
"The tentative name is Military Aircraft Department."
Both the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department adopt multi-person discussions, regardless of the master and slave, but take turns to write, and regularly rotate to avoid the situation where one person dominates.
The Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department are essentially just the secretaries and advisory bodies of the Metropolitan Governor. The power in their hands is to act on behalf of the Metropolitan Governor. Therefore, no matter whether it is a proposal from the Cabinet or the approval of the Military Aircraft Department, the Metropolitan Superintendent has the power to do otherwise at any time. of power.
This is a very important point.
Essentially speaking, both the cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department belong to the decision-making organs, making decisions on behalf of the governor. As a result, the cabinet also gained the power to draft official documents, similar to Zhongshu Sheren drafting edicts, Qin Lang also divided the power of drafting orders into two, and divided half of the power of drafting orders to the Military Aircraft Department.
is also divided into external orders and internal orders.
There are decision-making and executive organs, and of course there must be deliberative organs.
And we can't expect the six subjects to be successful like the Ming Dynasty.
Nowadays, the decision-making and deliberative organs of the Tang Dynasty tend to merge. Because of the Zhengshitang, the status of Zhongshu and Menxia Province is not as good as before, and they are slowly becoming a yamen.
This also made the three provinces, which were originally separated from the three powers, become the dominant political affairs hall, and the three provinces were unified. That's why Li Shimin set up the Imperial Academy, and Li Yin immediately created a Privy Council to take charge of the military.
It is all because of the originally balanced distribution of power among the three provinces, but now the distribution of power is out of balance again and must be adjusted again.
The solution Qin Lang gave was to build another knight academy.
The Academy of Knights holds the power of deliberation, and at the same time grants them the highest judicial power, which is equivalent to taking the positions of Dali Temple and Yushitai.
In order to ensure that the Knights Academy is not controlled by the cabinet or the Six Ministries, it has been reduced to a rubber stamp, so the knights in Qin Lang’s Knights Academy are not in the Luzon official system.
It is the royal family members of the Qin family in Luzon, as well as the cabinet bachelors, military aircraft department, Liucao military and other important officials who retired and were awarded knight titles and entered the Knights Academy. At the same time, all the knights of the Qin family in Luzon are members of the Knights Academy.
Then in the Knights Academy, set up several specialized permanent institutions, such as six departments, each of which has a number of left and right departments, responsible for inspecting the affairs of the six departments, and deliberating on cabinet decisions.
In addition to the six departments of the Knights Academy, there will also be a Ducha Department, which is responsible for supervising officials.
These departments belong to the permanent ministry department under the Knight Academy, and each manages one section. The officers are elected by the knights and appointed by the governor.
In addition to various subjects, the Knight Academy will also have a plenary meeting, which is mainly responsible for deliberating on Luzon laws and tax laws, as well as the annual budget.
If the House of Knights fails to pass the deliberation, then the cabinet, six ministries, etc. have to resubmit the bill.
There will definitely be very detailed regulations on the conditions for the passage of these bills, such as the number of seats and the percentage to be passed. For example, the passage of a bill requires three readings. For example, the first reading is only to notify the name, catalog, outline, etc. of the bill.
The second reading is to discuss article by article, which can be revised.
When it came to the third reading, only the entire bill was allowed to be discussed, and finally passed and rejected, and no further discussion or modification was allowed.
Only after passing the third reading can it be formally handed over to Liu Cao for execution.
The structure designed by Qin Lang is relatively complicated. The establishment of the Knights' Academy not only ensures that the power of deliberation will not be affected by the Six Caos and the cabinet, but also further protects and strengthens the interests of the Qin family's vassals.
The Academy of Knights will resolutely safeguard the interests of the Qin family, as well as the interests of the knights and vassals.
This can form a Luzon bureaucratic class and a Qin family vassal class, with the Knights' Academy as the final insurance, basically there is no need to worry about the Executive Yuan seizing power one day.
The inherent limitations of the cabinet and the military aircraft department also make it difficult for them to override the Qin family.
As for the military, at first Qin Lang planned to set up the Privy Council to separate civil and military affairs, but now that the imperial court has done so, Qin Lang no longer intends to do so, and the military still belongs to the Bing Cao. Bingcao is in charge of military, government and military orders, but not in command of troops.
The soldiers and horses are under the command of Sanya, and the soldiers and soldiers are under the command of Bingcao.
Bingcao holds the power to deploy troops, Sanya holds the power to command the troops, and the governor of the Qin family is the supreme commander of the Luzon army and has the right to choose generals.
"Sanlang has finally returned, and we in Luzon have a backbone. The candidates for the Six Caos, the Cabinet, the Military Aircraft Department, the Knights Academy, the Sanya and other departments, Sanlang should also have candidates. When will it be announced? Lu Song It's good for Song to enter a new beginning." Qin Yongdao.
(end of this chapter)