From the south county where Jingzhou Prefecture is located to the king capital of Dingxi Guyin, about more than 2,000 miles, although the three counties of Shu and Qinzhou were recovered by Huan Meng and Xin Er respectively, the passage between them has been opened, after going out of Jingzhou, first west into Shuzhong, through Badong, Hanzhong County, northwest and up, to Wudu County of Qinzhou in Dingxi, and then through Longxi County, cross the Yellow River, and you can enter Longzhou, the main territory of Dingxi, but along the way over the mountains and mountains, cross the river and cross the river, but the road is very difficult to walk, because it is, Huan Meng's letter was sent to Xin Er case after more than a month.

It's early summer, and the weather is getting hotter.

The temperature is hot, and the political atmosphere in Guyin, the royal city of Dingxi, is even hotter.

Just a few days ago, founded by Xin Er, Yang Chao, Sun Yan, Huang Rong, Yang Fu, Fu Qiao, Zhang Gui, etc., brainstormed, and formulated the "three provinces and six ministries" system, in which the chief officials and subordinate officials of each province and ministry were appointed and equipped, and all took office.

The three provinces are Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and Shangshu Province.

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The Zhongshu Province is basically the same as the Zhongshu Province of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, which is to hear the chapters, draft edicts, manage confidential affairs, participate in current affairs, and have the right to assist the country's decision-making.

Dingxi is a kingdom in the end, Linghule is only a "king", not an "emperor", if its subordinate officials and the central official name are the same, it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of transgression, so under the suggestion of Yang Chao, although the province of Dingxi is equivalent to the power and responsibility of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, it has changed its individual name, called "Inner History Province", and its chief official is not called the Zhongshu Supervisor and Zhongshu Order, but is called the Inner History Supervisor and the Inner History Order.

The positions of the supervisor and the order are equal, but the rank of the supervisor of the internal history is slightly higher than that of the internal history order.

The supervisor of internal history was elected Zhang Hun to be appointed, and the internal history order was given to Yang Chao.

The name of Zhongshu first appeared in the middle of the Qin Dynasty, and Emperor Wu of Qin first made the eunuch to write the book, which was called the one who wrote the book, placed the order, and shot the servant; In the period of the previous dynasty, it was set up as a province of Chinese books. The reason why the Cheng Dynasty established this province was to divide the power of Shangshutai and increase the imperial power. It is also for this reason that most of those who can serve in this province are close ministers of the Son of Heaven, and they are usually people who have won the trust of the Son of Heaven. The official office of Zhongshu Province is located in the forbidden garden, because there is a pond called "Phoenix" in the forbidden area of this dynasty, so the scholars of this dynasty often take "Phoenix Pool" as its pronoun,—— from this name, it can also be seen that the preciousness of this province.

In the early days of this dynasty, there was a middle book supervisor who was born in the Yingchuan Xun family, and was later moved to Shang Shuling, Shang Shuling Prime Minister for government affairs, and his power was greater than that of the Zhong Shu Supervisor, but this Zhong Shu Supervisor was no longer in charge of confidential information, and he was so frightened that he said to the ministers who came to congratulate: "Take my Phoenix Pool, how can you congratulate me?" The secret of the Chinese book can also be seen from this.

Yang Chao's qualifications are not enough to serve as the internal history supervisor, in fact, he is very reluctant to serve as the internal history order, and it is also for the purpose of "uniting the majority that can be united", Xin Er recommended Zhang Hun to serve as the head of the province.

Supervisors and orders are below, during the previous dynasty of the Cheng Dynasty, the subordinate officials of Zhongshu Province have Tongshilang and Huangmenlang, and the subordinates have a performance, first by Huangmenlang to read the acting, and then Tongshilang signed, after these two procedures, and then submitted to the Son of Heaven, for the emperor to read, and finally the emperor decides to adopt the discussion in the book. In most cases, the emperor simply promised a "may". To this dynasty, changed to Tongshilang, Huangmenlang, collectively known as Zhongshu Shilang, four people, at the beginning of Jiangzuo, changed to Tongshilang, but soon changed it back.

Below the Chinese book waiter, there are also Chinese scholars. After the dynasty moved to Dingjiang Zuo, one because of the less area under control, some of the previous officials could not be used, one because the financial revenue was greatly reduced, and the central government had no money, so it cut some central officials, and the people and the general affairs were one, which was called the general affairs of the people,—— and then later, even this general affairs people, Jiang Zuo also omitted, and selected one person from the Zhongshu Shilang to take charge of his post.

The province of Zhongshu has the power to draft edicts and other powers, which belong to the superintendents, orders, and servants, and they have no great power, and their duties are to present the case seals.

The four squires, also like the eunuchs and orders, were renamed the internal history squires, and the appointed people, one was a son of the Koji family, one was a servant of the Yin Master, one was Gao Chong, a former official of Xin Er who had made meritorious contributions several times, and the other was Song Pian who sold Song Fang at a critical moment.

The Zhongshu people, just like the current Jiangzuo, Dingxi also omitted it.

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The subordinate province is also in charge of Jiang Zuo, whose position is to be left and right as an attendant, asking about the right and near, picking up and filling in the gaps, in other words, that is, the adviser responds and regulates it; In addition, it also has the right to perform the affairs of the Pingshang Shu, that is, it can supervise the recital of the Shangshu, or check it for them, or it can also reject the recital of the Shangshu, or send it to the emperor for approval together with the original text; In addition, in various ceremonial environments, the officials of the province also have the responsibility of serving the monarch, counsellors, and so on.

This subordinate province, formerly known as Qin's attendant, was originally only a servant institution under the monarch, and its power has gradually expanded since its development.

Jiangzuo's subordinates have three provinces: subordinates, servants, and scattered horses. The officials under the door have the waiter, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, the general secretary, etc., the officials in the service have the bus order, the imperial doctor's order, etc., and the officials who are free to ride have the free rider permanent waiter, the loose rider waiter, and the middle of the service.

In this restructuring, Xin Er merged the three provinces into one high-ranking official and used the name of "serving the middle".

There were a total of four servants in Jiangzuomenxia Province, and Xin Er thought that according to the current situation in the middle of the country and the central government, there was no need for so many servants, so only two posts were set, one was appointed by Chen Sun, and the other was appointed to Huang Rong.

Like Yang Chao's appointment as the internal history order, Huang Rong's ability to take up this position also depends on Xin Er's current authority. Not to mention anything else, take Jiangzuo as an example, in the Jiangzuo Dynasty, the position of servant has long been monopolized by the nobles of the north, and the southerners can not easily get this position. I think there are many famous scholars among the Nanan, and with the prestige of the clan, they are still not allowed to hold this position, but Huang Rong, a cold man? If he hadn't hugged Xin Er's thigh earlier, let alone taking up this position, even if he was delusional, Huang Rong wouldn't dare to think that he would be able to have today!

Menxia Province also changed its name and changed its name to Huangmen Province. The officials of Menxia Province are the close advisors of the monarch, and the "door" of "Menxia" refers to the "Yellow Gate". The Yellow Gate is another name for the forbidden gate, "where the forbidden door is Huangmin, so it is called the Yellow Gate".

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Shangshu Province, among the three provinces, has the greatest power, and the large and small political affairs of the DPRK and the Central Committee are all taken care of. And with the momentum of the gate valve overshadowed the imperial power, according to the needs of government affairs and the principle of the emperor's approval, after the dynasty moved to the left of the Dingjiang River, Shangshutai also had more power to independently issue documents and direct government affairs. In order to distinguish it from the edict of the Son of Heaven, this kind of document is called "Shang Shufu".

- But it is Jiang Zuo's downward approach, "government affairs needs" and "emperor approval" are cloudy, and a discerning person can know at a glance, but it is just a fig leaf of imperial power. Like the powerful ministers Wang and others before that, they made this request to the isolated and puppet emperor through hundreds of officials and ministers, could it be that the emperor dared to refuse? However, this system was not bad in the eyes of Huang Rong and others, so they took Jiang Zuo's set of "regulations" and put them into the newly established "three provinces and six ministries" in Dingxi.

Among the three high-ranking officials, Shang Shuling, the chief official of Shangshutai, is the most eye-catching place in the Dingxi government and the opposition, who can be appointed?

Xin Er gave this job list to Lu Shuang.

Koji Shuang was originally very surprised, and pretended to excuse himself, and then accepted it happily, but he was not happy for two days, and suddenly Sun Yan, Yang Chao, Huang Rong and others, including Zhang Hun and Chen Sun, also signed, and unanimously asked Zuo and Linghu Le to worship Xin Er as "Lu Shang Shushi".

What is "Records of Books"?

This position was established in the middle of the Qin Dynasty, and it was the only one that the three dukes could serve, and their functions and powers were all-encompassing.

That is to say, when there was no "record of Shang Shushi", the Shang Shu Ling of Shangshu Province was the chief official of the province, but after there was "Lu Shang Shushi", Shang Shu Ling could only be subordinated to the subordinate and wait for his subordinate officials.

So, how much power does the position of Lu Shang Shi have, and how high is his status?

It can only be seen from the beginning of the relocation of the Jiangzuo Imperial Court to the present, who the successive "Lu Shang Shushi" are.

As of now, Jiang Zuo has a total of eleven people in this position, ten of which are from the first-class valve family, not to mention ordinary scholars, even second-rate scholars can not take this position, only one is from the clan, that is, Jiang Zuo's "Xiangwang" Cheng Day, and one, Cheng Day's appointment is not the real "Lu Shang Shushi", it is a lower than the Lu Shang Shu Shi "Lu Shang Shu Six Things", second, Cheng Day's ability to have today's status in the Jiang Zuo Dynasty is all because he is inclined to scholars, which is equivalent to saying that he is actually manipulated by the valve clan.

In this respect, under normal circumstances, with the name of Xin Er, he would not be qualified for this position at all.

As far as the entire Dingxi is concerned, those who are qualified for this position are none other than people from the Song, Zhang, Pan, and Koji families.

Koji Shuang is quite annoyed by this, but among the people who jointly wrote the book, there are not only Yang Chao and Huang Rong, who are also important ministers in the court like Zhang Hun and Chen Sun, and the right name of the prince, on the other hand, the courtiers who can command can be moved, whether it is the number or the heavyweight, are far from comparable, and he can only swallow his anger and have no choice but to accept this reality.

Someone suggested that he simply resign and give up Shang Shuling's position, but after thinking about it, Shang Shuling is the most dazzling of the three high-ranking officials, and it is difficult for Koji Shuang to abandon it, and finally he did not listen to the man's words on the grounds that "the new policy is beginning, the surnames are divided into powers, if I don't have a noble position, then my family's reputation is bound to be very low, and now I can be wronged, not my family", did not listen to the man's words.

The officials of Shangshu Province, following the Shangshu Order, are the left and right servants, Lie Cao Shangshu, Cheng, Shangshu Lang, Ling Shi, etc.

Left and right servants, Qin Shi was originally one person, and there was only one servant shot, until the end of Qin, it was divided into left and right. Since the beginning of the dynasty, sometimes two members, sometimes one member, and it has changed uncertainly. Xin Er used a two-member system, the left servant shot Ren to Sun Yan, and the right servant shot Ren to Yan Dan.

Shooting the right servant to Yan Dan was something that many ministers and scholars in the Dingxi government and the opposition did not expect.

Huang Rong and the others didn't expect it.

Huang Rong's background is not high, his previous career was difficult, and he had no good impression of the children of the valve clan who were proud of his family, proud and slow, and despised the Han Shi, so he asked Xin Er privately: "Before the Kuan, he falsely accused the Ming Gong, and the Ming Duke did not kill him, which was already lenient, but now why did he call his son Fan Dan back to the court and give the right servant the important position of shooting?" ”

Xin Er replied: "Fan Dan young famous, the township is known as 'Qilin Lang', looking at his seventeen-year-old out of office, although the government is a little urgent, but he transferred to the state, county, the court, where more than ten years, the evaluation is excellent, can be called a capable minister, the right servant shoots the position, very suitable for him, is to I play the king, the queen mother, call him back to the court, give him this position. ”

Huang Rong said: "But Ming Gong, Pan Kuan was expelled from the court, in the final analysis, it is because of Ming Gong, it is expected that Fan Dan will be extremely dissatisfied with Ming Gong, if he is in the right servant, he will oppose Ming Gong everywhere......"

Xin Er interrupted him and didn't let him continue, Zhengse said: "I asked the court to go out of the court for the sake of the country; Today, he summoned the Dan to return to the court, also for the country. Jing Huan, your time with me is not short, don't you know who I am? Is there a personal enmity in the eyes of my Agua? As long as he is useful to the country, his father will frame me again, and I will use it again for him! After a pause, he said, "Besides, this spring, Rouran committed the West Sea, and Fan Dan did not complain about slacking off because of his father's expulsion, but worked together with Suo Gong to defend against foreign invaders, personally committed Yashi, and did not retreat in the face of danger, so he was defeated and captured by a small person. Suo Gong in the good news, prepared the loyalty and courage of Dan, what this secretary has seen with his own eyes, Dan can focus on national affairs, am I not as good as him? ”

Huang Rong showed a look of admiration at the right time, and said: "Naixin royal family, loyal to the country, no one in the court can be the right of the Ming Duke!" ”

The next day, the conversation between Huang Rong and Xin Er spread through the mouths of Fu Qiao and Zhang Gui all over the government and opposition in Guyin.

The Queen Mother Zuo also heard about this in the palace, and was deeply moved, and her heart was rippling, thinking that she had to be rewarded in order to repay her loyalty, but what should she reward? Gold and silver jewelry, Xin Er has never been interested; Female music and dancing are not very suitable for rewarding loyalty. When he was in trouble for a long time, Zuo took off one of the sachets he brought, and ordered the palace maid of his cronies to take it to Xin's house, and gave it to Xin Er as a reward.

I don't need to say much about it.

There are two members of Jiangzuo Shangshutai, which are Zuo Cheng and Right Cheng.

Zuo Cheng's main stage is inscribed, the ancestral temple is worshipped, the court ritual system, the selection of officials, and emergency leave; The right Cheng is in charge of the treasury in the house, all the things used for all the utensils, and the Liao Zhenren rent cloth, the prison weapons, and supervise the recording of the documents and chapters of the distant road. Zuo Cheng also has the responsibility of supervising and impeaching the "eight seats", including orders and servants.

- "Eight seats", this name originates from the middle of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Qin Dynasty set up six Cao in Shangshutai, and the six Cao Shangshu plus one person each of the order and the servant, was a total of eight people, and although the officials above the Shangshutai Shangshulang had a high grade, they all had to be nominated by the ministers and officials, and the emperor approved before they could be appointed and dismissed, and the orders and servants had no right to directly intervene, that is, the subordinates were not the counselors and subordinates of the chiefs, although they were supervised by the order, but if they were colleagues, so they were called "eight seats", and all major government affairs, according to the usual practice, were all from which the eight people sat together and discussed and decided together. It is also the "Eight Seats".

Zuo Cheng and Right Cheng were awarded to the children of the Shi clan in Dingxi.

Named "Three Provinces and Six Ministries", the Zhucao saved by Shangshu is naturally six in this system.

The name of the six Cao is divided into officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers.

Six Cao, or six parts, are divided into four divisions under them.

The four divisions of the Ministry of Officials are the Department of Officials, the Division of the Lord, the Division of Honors, and the Division of Examination of Merit; The four divisions of the household department are the household department, the degree branch division, the gold department, and the warehouse department; The four divisions of the Ministry of Rites are the Department of Rites, the Department of Ancestral Hall, the Department of Catering, and the Department of Host and Guest; The four divisions of the Ministry of War are the Department of War, the Department of Staff, the Department of Driving, and the Department of Treasury; And so on and so forth.

The chief officer of the six departments is called Shangshu.

Among them, Yang Fu served as the secretary of the household department, Fu Qiao served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Seng Cheng served as the secretary of the military department.

Among the six departments, the most senior secretary of the ministry was the secretary, and Xin Er recommended Koji Shuo's eldest son Ko Lan to take the position.

The young sons and daughters of the Jiangzuo valve clan all take the appointment of officials as their expectation, and those who have a prominent reputation and a high-ranking family will often refuse to accept them if they are not awarded the title of officials, even if they get other better "clean officials", out of the protection of their own "rights and interests" and the "reputation" of their families.

Affected by this, the positions in charge of the selection of officials in the Dingxi Dynasty earlier were also held by the children of the first-class lords of Longzhou. In this context, coupled with the fact that if the official in charge of the election does not have a good reputation and personal reputation, it will be difficult to convince the public, so the position of the official secretary, after careful consideration, was not selected from the bag, but was awarded to Koran.

There was another reason for conferring this position on Koran.

It is the same as raising Zhang Hun as the internal history supervisor and Dan as the right servant of the Yellow Gate, and it is also to "unite the majority".

In my previous life, Xin Er read a sentence and remembered it deeply, which was "Politics is to make more people who support us and fewer people who oppose us."

Xin Er felt that this was too reasonable, he didn't have the opportunity to use it before, but now that he has it, of course he has to put it into practice. As long as there is no serious threat to him, those who can be used, he will strive to put the capital in the right position,—— even if there are voices against him from time to time, it is better than being a lonely person, this is the principle of Xin Er's current governance.

The six departments and twenty-four divisions, the remaining two departments, and the twenty-four divisions, some are the children of the crown family, and some are the children of the poor family, regardless of the crown family, the cold family, no matter what the background of these big and small officials is, they have one thing in common, that is, they are all officials, and they are all talented. This point is very different from the previous situation in Dingxi and the central government, and it is also completely different from the situation that Jiang Zuo has always had.

Still take Jiang Zuo as an example, Jiang Zuo's Shangshu Province, up to Shangshu Ling, servants, down to Shang Shulang, Cheng, on the origin, all for the nobles, but although the background of their generation is good, the test is real, but most of them have nothing, talk about Xuan and talk about emptiness, the head is the Tao, handle the practice, through the nine tricks, and even some people, even the official documents can not be understood, "Wangbai is empty", the entire daily administrative work of Shangshu Province is actually all dependent on the more than 245 low-level officials filled by Han Shi, that is, "Zhengling History" and "Shuling History" to operate.

Xin Er is deeply disgusted by this situation.

In particular, the daily work was done by the Han scholars, and as a result, the Han scholars were also contemptuously called "villains" by the nobles, and they were "whipped and supervised" at every turn, which is really unreasonable.

If the country's senior officials are like this, how can they talk about Zhongxing? How to talk about recovering the Central Plains?

Because of this, taking advantage of the opportunity of the restructuring, Xin Er eliminated all the officials who were not useful, and those who were retained in the six ministries and twenty-four divisions were carefully selected by him. Those eliminated officials did not dismiss all of them, but some of them were sent to the counties and counties to try to exercise, and some were really useless, so they were thrown into institutions such as history museums and monks.

Shangshu Province was also renamed Zhongtai.

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In short, the administrative power of the Dingxi Dynasty has been completely under its control after the official implementation of the three-province and six-ministry system.

In other words, the current powers of drafting edicts, participating in decision-making, and managing government affairs in the Dingxi Dynasty are no longer scattered among the various prefectures, but are divided into several people, such as Zhang Hun, the supervisor of the internal history, Yang Chao, Chen Sun, Huang Rong, the Zhongtai Ling, Sun Yan, and the right servant of the Zhongtai.

Above these people, there is "Recording Shangshu Affairs", or "Recording Zhongtai Affairs".

From following Linghu to flee, to following Linghu Feng to usurp the throne, to Linghu Feng to die, Linghu Le succeeded to the throne, and then to the next, although the time seems to have only taken a few years, but the difficulty and danger are like people drinking water, cold and warm self-knowledge, to this day, Xin Er finally became the most powerful minister in Dingxi from the time of the year.

In this sense, Huan Meng's letter at this time was taken on some different colors.

It seems to be seen that when the forces of the Hu tribes of Qin, Wei, and Hehun were fighting together, and the war broke out again in the north, a Tang minister of Jiangzuo, who was full of ambition and hoped to take charge of the Tang dynasty in order to recover the northern land, had a timely contact with a Tang minister of Longdi who had just mastered the government of Dingxi and also set his sights on Guanzhong and the Central Plains in order to seek recovery.