The Tang Empire has three Taiwans, six departments and twenty-four divisions, and three Zhongshu, Menxia and Shangshu.

Shangshutai has six subordinate departments, Shangshuling is the supreme governor of Shangshutai, if the six departments of Shangshutai are the siblings who carry out specific actions, then Zhongshutai is the brain of the empire, headed by the minister of the empire, to assist the Son of Heaven to agree on national policy strategy, master confidential policies, and determine the major political strategies of the empire.

The door is the internal office of the three stations, which is responsible for reviewing and conveying government decrees, reviewing and analyzing the strategies formulated by Zhongshutai, determining feasibility, and even having the right to delete or even deny the policies agreed upon by Zhongshutai, which is actually a constraint on the overly powerful Zhongshutai.

Since the founding of the country, although the door has the power to deny the decree of Zhongshutai, but Zhongshutai is often in accordance with the emperor's will to formulate political strategies, usually with the emperor's permission to issue orders, to the door to the down, is nothing more than a formality, Zhongshutai to determine the decree, almost can be smoothly through the door and conveyed to the six yamen of Shangshutai for implementation.

In addition to restricting the middle desk, the door is also responsible for the sixteen eunuchs in the palace, and the highest prefect of the door is also known as the servant, which has always been served by the palace eunuch.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, among the three Taiwans, the power of the inner eunuchs has always been very weak, and they are far from being able to compete with the Zhongshutai and Shangshutai.

However, after the Holy Empress Xiahou ascended the throne, in the past ten years, with the support of the Holy Queen, the door has changed its weak state and has become stronger and stronger.

The saint set up a purple prison to supervise hundreds of officials, in addition to the establishment of the North Courtyard, which constrained the household, these two yamen are the two sharp swords that the sage relies on very much, both are subordinate to the door to the stage, with the two major yamen full of wings, the power in the court is growing day by day, and the door is naturally rising and the power is growing.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the country, in addition to the three Zhongshu and Menxia Monk Books, there were also two others, which were relatively limited in power and not the center of the empire, so they could not be compared with the three with extremely heavy authority.

These two are the secretary desk and the inner servant desk.

The inner chamberlain is responsible for the service of the inner court, does not participate in state affairs, and is governed by the eunuchs in the palace.

In the early days of the empire, in addition to the public eunuchs, there were also officials in the outer court, so there was a lot of internal strife.

The secretarial desk is responsible for the organization of the country's documents and books.

The highest chief of the secretary desk is the secretary supervisor, and there are officials such as secretary Cheng, secretary Lang, school secretary Lang, etc., the classification is quite detailed, there are subjects such as national history revision, astronomical calendar, famous scripture consultant, geographical miscellaneous talks, etc., and every decree issued by the emperor is also specially archived in the secretary desk.

The authority of the secretary station is light, and because of this, the officials of the secretary station are often far away from the struggle between the DPRK and China, and can be safe as officials, and the promotion of officials is usually much more difficult than other official offices, as long as there is no big mistake, the official position usually does not change much, and it is the seniority that is promoted here, so if there is no accident, it is almost impossible for a secretary to be promoted to a secretary in ten or eight years.

As a direct executive order, the six departments are not monolithic.

After the sage ascended the throne, he wantonly appointed eunuchs in the inner palace, which also led to the fact that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the door finally had the power to fight for tat with the Zhongshutai, while the six yamen also stood in line for their own interests.

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According to the situation of the battlefield, some generals were summoned to discuss military affairs, so the Southern Courtyard in charge of military strategy was established.

The existence of the Southern Courtyard directly led to the loss of a lot of power by the Yamen of the Ministry of War.

The military department originally ate a piece of cake alone, but half of it was taken away by the students of the South Courtyard, because from the very beginning, the people of the two yamen looked down on each other unpleasantly, although they were not incompatible, but they regarded each other as enemies.

The existence of the North Courtyard, especially the supervising army sent by the North Courtyard, directly constrained the generals in various places, and the Southern Courtyard and the Northern Courtyard were naturally extremely contradictory, and the officials of the Military Department fully understood the truth that the enemy's enemy was a friend, but they got along with the North Courtyard in harmony, and the two major yamen were convenient for each other, so the military department actually became the sphere of influence of the Men to step down.

The military headquarters is located on Suzaku Street outside the Imperial City.

There is a hut in a secluded courtyard of the military headquarters, there are two soldiers guarding the door, and the dim oil lamp is lit in the room, and the oil lamp shines on Han Yunong's body, casting his shadow on the wall, and the shadow on the wall is slightly distorted as the oil lamp flickering.

Han Yunong sat at the table, looking at the lights, his face was grim.

Hearing footsteps outside, the door of the house was pushed open, Han Yunong didn't even turn his head, until someone slowly walked to his side, he glanced at it, and saw an old man in purple civilian clothes standing beside him, and was about to get up, but the old man had already reached out and patted Han Yunong on the shoulder, and his voice was gentle: "Sit and talk." ”

The old man is nearly sixty years old, with a long gray beard, although he is not young, his body is still straight, and his complexion is not bad.

"I've wronged you in the past two days." The old man walked across from Han Yunong, sat down, and said with a smile: "Old man Fan Wenzheng." ”

Han Yunong was stunned, then immediately got up and bowed: "Bow down to meet Fan Butang!" ”

He had never met Fan Wenzheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and at this time, the other party reported to his home and knew his identity.

"Sit down and talk." Fan Wenzheng said kindly: "In the past two days, the old man has too much official business, and he can't spare time, I heard them say that you have an urgent military report, and the old man has always wanted to summon you, but he is always too busy to spare time, so let people arrange for you to stay here first, and when the old man is free, he will see you immediately." ”

Han Yunong said: "The Lord of the Ministry is hard, and the military situation is really urgent, so I dare not report it." The Lord of the Ministry sent someone to ask the Humble Majesty to write the Xiling Rebellion into an excerpt, and the Humble Majesty wrote it last night and asked people to send it to the Minister's Hall, I wonder if the Lord of the Ministry has ever seen it? ”

"The old man has already seen it, you have worked hard." Fan Wenzheng said: "The old man also received the news, Xiling seems to have changed, Jiayuguan has been sealed, but the specific matters, can not be completely determined, you yesterday the specific situation of the Xiling rebellion into a document, the old man after reading it, has understood the situation over there, and has also prepared an excerpt, ready to submit to the sage." After a pause, he continued: "You are a close confidant of the general, if I am not mistaken, when you were transferred to Xiling eight years ago, the old man was only a squire in the military department. The imperial court set up several Duwei Mansions in Xiling, just to monitor the movements of those families in Xiling, and the existence of Duwei Mansion not only made them understand that Xiling was the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but also made them dare not be too presumptuous. ”

Han Yunong nodded and said, "Yes." ”

"But before you, the Du Wei sent not only failed to restrain the Xiling family, but was bought by the Xiling family, and the Du Wei Mansion became their lackey." Fan Wenzheng sighed: "In order to arrange for you to go to Xiling, General Hei Yu took great pains to let the officials review you.

After the assessment of the officials, I re-made your resume file for you, just because I don't want Xiling to know your identity as a black feather night crow, so that you will not be too wary of the Xiling family when you are transferred to Xiling. ”

Han Yunong just nodded slightly and didn't speak.

"In that battle, General Black Feather and Black Feather Night Crow made great contributions, although they were finally forced to withdraw from Xiling to Guannei, but General Black Feather did not want to return to Xiling for more than ten years, so that Xiling returned to the embrace of the Tang Dynasty." Fan Wenzheng said solemnly: "The old man not only understands the general's good intentions, but also admires them very much. After Xiling fell into the hands of those families, except for the generals and a very small number of people, many people did not care about it at all, but felt that there was no need for the imperial court to spend money, food, soldiers and horses to recover Xiling. ”

Han Yunong Zhengse said: "Xiling is the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not controlled by the imperial court, which is to divide the territory. Xiling is the place where countless soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are buried, no matter what the price is, it must be returned to the Tang Dynasty. He got up and arched his hand: "Lord Ministry, this time I entered Beijing to report to the imperial court in detail about the Xiling rebellion. Fan Ziqi is in cahoots with Li Huo, who is pretending to be the prince, and may even ...... with the Woods! ”

Before he finished speaking, Fan Wenzheng raised his hand and pressed it, and said warmly: "Don't be in a hurry, sit down and talk slowly." Picking up the teapot on the table and pouring water into the teacup in front of Han Yunong, Han Yunong hurriedly said: "Don't dare to bother the minister!" But he sat down anyway.

"After the general returned to Xiling, the old man was overjoyed, but he also knew that the situation in Xiling was complicated, and when the general went out, only the guards and light cavalry followed, but the immortal army was not quickly transferred." Fan Wenzheng said solemnly: "Without the Immortal Army, it will be difficult to deter the three counties of Xiling from having other intentions, so after the general left the customs, the old man thought about letting the Immortal Army out of the customs as soon as possible." ”

Han Yunong's expression was grim, and he said, "Lord Ministry, the general and we all thought that the Immortal Army would arrive quickly, but we never saw the soldiers and horses appear. The general told me that the imperial court has difficulties with the imperial court, and the sage has made an order, the immortal army will definitely go out, and as soon as the order of the military department arrives, the soldiers and horses can set off from Woye Town. ”

"That's true." Fan Wenzheng said: "The sage's will came to the side of the military department, and after we received the will, we quickly discussed with the household department and asked them to allocate silver taels to settle the families of the Immortal Army. You also know that the three thousand immortals are all in the fertile field, and it takes a lot of money to move them all out of the pass, eat, drink, and settle down outside the pass, so the military department discussed that the immortal army should be quickly released from the customs first, and the family members would stay in the fertile field for the time being, and then let them move out when the time was ripe. However, once the soldiers of the Immortal Army leave the customs, they have been stationed in Xiling, and they are concerned about their families, if the imperial court cannot properly settle them, so that they can avoid worries, they will not be at ease. ”

Han Yunong nodded, and Fan Wenzheng continued: "Of course, the old man knows in his heart that the sooner the Immortal Army leaves the customs, the better, but if the money of the household department cannot be allocated to the military department, once the immortal army leaves the customs, the household department will continue to find reasons to be in arrears, and the military department will not be able to take out the money to settle the family members of the immortal army, how can we explain to the soldiers of the immortal army?" So the money has not arrived, the transfer order of the military department does not dare to be easily issued, and the immortal army will not move, so that we can get the settlement fee for the immortal army from the household department, do you understand the old man's hard work? ”

"Lord Ministry's intentions are good." Han Yunong said: "But with all due respect, if the Changsheng Army leaves the pass as soon as possible and arrives at the pass before Chinese New Year's Eve, the Fan family will probably not dare to act rashly, even if there is a real rebellion, there are three thousand Changsheng troops sitting in the town, and it will not be easy for them to successfully capture Xiling." ”