I am Da Song

Chapter 125 Shaking the Nation
The truth of Li Gang's question really stumped Zhao Huan. Why was Li Gang granted an official position?
Zhao Huan naturally hoped to make him prime minister, but under the ambiguous system of the Song Dynasty, there were already left prime ministers and right prime ministers, so Li Gang could not be named middle prime minister.

In the final analysis, the Three Provinces and Six Departments system of the Tang Dynasty copied by the Song Dynasty is very outdated, with constant wrangling and low efficiency.

The Song Dynasty implemented a one-province system, and the Zhongshu Province was fully responsible for government affairs.Zhongshu Province and the Privy Council are called the East and West.The Southern Song Dynasty went a step further, and even the prime minister directly served as the Privy Council.

But the result is obviously that the efficiency has improved, and there has also been an unprecedented power minister Jia Sidao, who buried the Song Dynasty single-handedly.

Zhao Huan was impatient to sort out this redundant and messy system, and said to Li Gang: "I plan to re-establish the political affairs hall, and you will be in charge of Pingzhang political affairs in it, Jiaguan Wendian University scholar."

The Zhengshitang is an institution that appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and the prime ministers all work in it, in order to solve the problem of low efficiency in the three provinces.

After the restructuring of Yuanfeng, the left and right servants of the Shangshu Province concurrently served as the chief officials of the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province respectively. It was considered that the power of the three provinces was reluctantly collected into one place, and the capital of the Shangshu Province was actually the political affairs hall.

Zhao Huan reset the institution of Zhengshitang today in order to eliminate the authority of Shangshu Province.

Pingzhang's political affairs are official titles, and they are also called for discussing major national affairs.

As the name suggests, it was originally an official position for discussing major national affairs. Since the mid-Tang Dynasty, anyone who was not a Zhongshu Ling or a servant but took the position of prime minister was added to the political affairs of the Pingzhang.

Hearing this appointment, Li Gang was a little happy, which meant that he became the third prime minister of the imperial court.

Although this prime minister is not strictly an orthodox prime minister, so what?As a prime minister, he was supposed to participate in court battles, fight for power, and snatch other people's power, so he was a well-deserved prime minister.

Mei Zhili and Zhao Ding left, Zhao Huan left Li Gang on purpose, and said, "I purposely did not set up any authority in the Political Affairs Hall, because I wanted to use this to sort out the court organization, streamline a large number of redundant officials, and reset a set of court operating procedures. "

The scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty were very enthusiastic about this matter. Li Gang only served as Zhao Gou's prime minister for 75 days in history.In these 75 days, the reform institution, which can't wait for it, has newly established 21 military and political articles.

Now that Zhao Huan has personally endorsed it, he is gearing up for a big fight, and asked: "The country is full of redundant officials, where do the officials plan to start?"

Zhao Huan smiled lightly and said, "Let's start with Shang Shusheng."

As soon as the words fell, the excited expression on Li Gang's face almost froze.Under the current Song Dynasty regime, Shang Shusheng almost represented the entire imperial court.

The two chancellors, the left and the right, controlled the entire process from the drafting of the imperial edict, to its review, refutation, and final execution.

Streamlining and abolishing Shangshu Province is tantamount to an operation on all three provinces.Because the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province have already been marginalized, and they are operating around the Shangshu Province.

Li Gang was upright, but he did not dare to be an enemy of the entire court officials.

Zhao Huan's attitude was extremely firm, and the problem of redundant officials in the court was too serious.An upright and tough minister like Li Gang is needed to go on a rampage and break the old institutional framework.

For example, the abolition of the three provinces will reduce thousands of officials between Zhao Huan and the six ministries, and all links such as drafting, review, criticism, and communication will be cut off.

Zhao Huan can then directly convey his will to the six departments.

Realize that I am the country!

The imperial court does not need so many ministers to express their opinions and comment on various government orders.

Only six officials are required to firmly implement the emperor's decree.

So Zhao Huan smiled and incited Li Gang: "Qing is an outstanding person in my dynasty, who only emerges once in a hundred years. It is the officials of the imperial court that limit Qing's talents. Imagine, Qing, if you have full power in the political affairs hall , without any restraint. All your ideas can be directly issued to the officials of the six departments, and the officials of the six departments will implement them immediately."

"How clear will the court be, and how civilized and prosperous the country will be?"

What is the best incitement to scholar-bureaucrats?It is to make them believe that with their own character, they can influence one party, make the politics clear, and lead to the king, Yao and Shun.

The bright future Zhao Huan described to Li Gang made it impossible for Li Gang to curb his political ambitions.

If there is such a political environment, at the worst, I can be like Zhuge Kongming, make the country rich, punish Chen Qing, follow Chen Dejiao, and change things with reason, right?
In the end, Li Gang couldn't bear the longing in his heart, and set a small goal for himself.

Don't offend the entire imperial court for the time being, first strive for the leadership of the six ministries.

Seeing Li Gang leaving with a red face, Zhao Huan confirmed that his deployment had initially paid off.

Li Gang is bound to launch an impact on the power structure of the three-provincial system and shake the ruling foundation of the officials of the three provinces.

With myself behind the scenes, it won't take long for the sixth department to accept the command of the Zhengshitang.

When the power of the three provinces has been weakened to a certain extent, there will be little hindrance in the banning.

At that time, all kinds of powers such as refutation and deliberation will be cancelled.

The emperor's will will be greatly strengthened, and will be quickly passed on to the six ministries for execution through the political affairs hall.

The next step is naturally to kill the donkey. It is impossible for him to allow the Zhengshitang to wield such great authority.

At that time, the power of the six ministries will be strengthened, and the six ministries will be directly responsible to the emperor.At the same time, the administrative power of the Zhengshitang was abolished, and the true colors of Pingzhang's political affairs were restored.The prime ministers are responsible for discussing state affairs and no longer have administrative power.

Zhao Huan optimistically estimates that this wave of reforms will eliminate at least [-] redundant officials.All the officials in the three provinces were streamlined, leaving only a few prime ministers and dozens of clerks and errands in the Zhengshitang.

The face of the entire imperial court will suddenly become clear and much refreshed.

Li Gang was also vigorous and resolute. On the first day he took office, he gave an order to the household department to report the inventory in Taicang and count the population of Jingji Road.

The Hubu Shangshu is Chen Zhizhi, the minister of the main combat faction. When Mei Zhili was the Hubu Shangshu, he was the Hubu Minister.Mei Zhili was promoted to prime minister, and he was promoted to be the Minister of the Household Department.

He is Mei Zhili's absolute confidant, and he also accompanied Mei Zhili in the Song Dynasty's death festival in history.

But facing this sudden order from Zhengshitang, Chen Zhizhi was really at a loss.What power does Zhengshitang have to order the household department to cooperate?

This question, Zuo Xiang, has no way to answer.After all, a prime minister was involved.

Chen Zhizhi had no choice but to go to the palace to ask Zhao Huan for instructions. After receiving Zhao Huan's reply, the Ministry of Households reluctantly expressed that it would cooperate with the Zhengshitang.

But Li Gang was not idle, and gave another order to the Ministry of Industry, asking the Ministry of Industry to send people to the Bianhe River to repair the river.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was not as soft as Chen Zhizhi, and he directly replied that the Ministry of Industry only accepted orders from the Ministry of Industry, and did not hear that there was a political affairs hall in Song Dynasty.

So in the afternoon, Qin Hui impeached the minister of the Ministry of Industry for corruption, and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry was suspended pending participation.

This is too much!
Taiwan's remonstrance actually gave the Zhengshitang a boost!

Tokyo officials are outraged, this... this... is simply insulting... how decent!We, the scholar-bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty, are bound to face this kind of evil force... to choose from the heart.

After all, the welfare benefits of Song Dynasty officials are quite good.

There is something to say, isn't it just to cooperate with the order of the Zhengshitang?What's the big deal?It is only natural to obey the prime minister's order, please ask Tai Jian to put away the knife.

(End of this chapter)