Chapter 1116: The Old and the New
Many people want to pull Qian Aoli out of power, in fact, not only Qian Aoli, but now every minister on duty is followed by a bunch of people who want to kill them and then take the position themselves.
There is no way, so many ministers want to be on their own, those local political envoys want to be governors, the governors want to return to Gyeonggi and serve as a squire, the right squire wants to become the left squire, the left squire wants to become a scholar, and the secretary of the ordinary department wants to become the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce and other powerful departments, or go to the Inspectorate, the Hanlin Yuan as a leader, what he does is nothing more than to want to enter the imperial study at the end and become the minister on duty, a very popular minister.
At present, although the Tang Dynasty has said that there is already a number of years of Zhishi, it is stipulated that the age of Zhishi is 60 years old and the age of Zhishi is 65 years old.
However, this age limit for Zhishi does not play a big role at present, because the top leaders of the Tang Dynasty are not very old as a whole, and the earliest founding heroes represented by Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu are now only in their fifties.
As for Qian Aoli, his age is even younger, he is not even fifty years old this year, to be precise, Qian Aoli is only forty-five years old this year.
If you really do it at the age of sixty-five, it will be twenty years later.
But is it possible for Qian Qili to stay in the position of Minister on Duty for twenty years?
Impossible!
Qian Qili has been a duty minister for six years, and if he is another twenty years, it will be twenty-six years!
For such a long time, let alone Qian Aoli, even a person like Liu Bagou who has almost the first hero of the Tang Dynasty, such as the founder, support, and Conglong, cannot sit firmly in the position of the minister on duty for twenty-six years!
It is impossible for high-level personnel to be like these people all the time, and when it takes a long time, whether it is because of lack of ability or to maintain normal personnel rotation, Li Xuan will change the personnel.
In recent years, he has basically maintained a constant rhythm of updating the Minister on duty and the Minister on Walk.
In this process, Bai Yunqi, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, the three earliest ministers of the dragon, all retired from their high positions one after another, and after they withdrew from the front-line political arena, Li Xuan did not treat them badly, Bai Yunqi was arranged to serve as a director of Datang Western Company, and also gave him a lot of shares, Qian Mengjiu was unwilling to continue to engage in politics, nor was he willing to play his spare heat in state-owned enterprises.
This person can be regarded as having experienced the peak of his life, so after retiring from politics, he returned to his hometown in Xingquan Mansion to retire, and after returning to his hometown, he opened a private school to meet his desire to become a teacher in his early years.
It's not just civilian officials who have been replaced, but also military generals!
Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren and other veteran generals in the military system during the Huangzhushan period, except for the only seedling left like Butcher Chen, the others have all retired from active duty.
In fact, long before the reunification, Fang Dongquan and they had already taken a back seat, and after a few years of fighting in the Privy Council, taking advantage of the empire's recovery of Liaodong and the Goryeo Peninsula and the complete unification, Li Xuan held a large-scale ceremony to reward meritorious heroes in the winter of the eighth year of Xuanping.
At the award ceremony in the eighth year of Xuanping, Li Xuan newly crowned five dukes, twenty-six marquises, fifty-seven counts, in addition to more than three hundred viscounts and more than six hundred barons.
Coupled with the original nobles who were feuded, this also made the number of people with noble titles in the empire exceed 1,000.
It's just that among the nobles of more than 1,000 people, most of them are ordinary hereditary titles of reduced rank, and the barons have no way to inherit the titles because they are already the lowest.
In other words, after a few decades have passed, the number of nobles in the empire will definitely decrease by hundreds at once.
In the end, the overall number of nobles should be maintained at about 500.
As for the truly hereditary noble titles, so far, Li Xuan has only been rewarded with fifteen!
And at present, the hereditary replacement of the Tang Dynasty is not the same as the traditional hereditary replacement, because the hereditary title does not always retain the original title, but does not cut the title after the hereditary succession to the baron, and retains the baronial title and retires with the country!
This is the new definition of hereditary recklessness set by Li Xuan himself!
Therefore, when a duke is given a hereditary succession, his descendants do not mean that they can inherit the duke title all the time, but that they can inherit the baronial title after they are reduced to the baron.
Of course, there will always be preferential treatment for the founding heroes!
Hereditary reckonage only retains the title of baron, but Li Xuan naturally can't let a few real heroes, after two or three generations, they will be obscure, and people will follow you desperately to rebel, not to mention that most of these nobles are also military nobles, and Li Xuan also needs to maintain the status of military nobles in the country, and then maintain the strength of the empire's military power.
Therefore, there are also some people who have received special preferential treatment such as inheritance after two or three generations!
For example, Hao Bonian received this kind of preferential treatment, as the general with almost the greatest military merit in the empire, he officially obtained the rank of army general in the eighth year of Xuanping and became the first general of the empire, but after obtaining this military rank, he immediately applied for retirement from active duty.
There's no way, who makes him a great master, doesn't want to die, and wants to enjoy the glory and wealth, he will definitely have to be a man with his tail between his legs after the end of the unification war.
And Li Xuan, for the sake of political influence, naturally would not approve his retirement application, but it was also impossible to lead troops, and it happened that Li Xuan was not the only general to be promoted at that time, so then Li Xuan expanded the Privy Council and set up a deputy envoy to the Privy Council, and the number of deputy envoys was not clearly specified.
Hao Bonian and the army generals of the field army who were promoted one after another, such as Li Chunjing, all became deputy envoys of the Privy Council, and then returned to Jinling City to enjoy happiness!
As for the hard work of fighting outside, there is no need to trouble these military bigwigs, there are a large number of newly promoted major generals and lieutenant generals waiting to make contributions.
As compensation for returning to Jinling and letting go of military power, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing and several others became imperial dukes, and then they also received three generations of hereditary inheritance, hereditary replacement, and these two preferential treatments!
In the War of Unification, the generals who appeared in the Huangzhushan era bandits represented by Fang Dongquan successively launched the front line.
The Huangzhushan era represented by Hao Bonian emerged, and rose rapidly during the Guizhou and Liangguang campaigns, and became the core generals of the imperial army.
Relatively speaking, the replacement of the old and the new in the military is relatively smooth!
Of course, Li Xuan's control over the army is very strong, but it is also related to the Chinese tradition!
The allusion of the rabbit dead and the dog cooking, and the bird hiding the bow is known to every founding general, and many generals have already planned for the back road in the later stage of the unification war.
When Hao Bonian led the Third Army to take Hebei and conquer Youzhou, he had already begun to write a letter asking to take a back seat.
After the Unification War, in the face of Li Xuan's holy decree to transfer him back to Jinling City to serve as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, instead of being disgusted by this obvious promotion and actual deprivation of military power, he was glad that he had saved his life, and even more so his future and the glory of his family.
He is not like Fang Dongquan, because he wants to cling to power, and in the end he was kicked out of active duty.
Hao Bonian is retreating as advancing, giving up military power and returning to Jinling City, but he is still the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, an active army general, if there is any major war in the future, a big man like him will definitely be able to lead the army again.
It's better than retiring from active service!
Hao Bonian is only in his thirties this year, and he is still young, but he doesn't want to go home to retire like this, and he doesn't want to be clicked by a knife because of his high skills.
Hao Bonian is a smart person, and others are not stupid!
Therefore, after the end of the Unification War, Li Xuan's replacement of the old and the new at the top of the army was relatively smooth, and a large number of outstanding military achievements were made in the field army, and they were all recalled to Jinling City by Li Xuan, partly arranged to be the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and partly arranged to serve in various ministries of the Privy Council.
Eight years after Xuanping, the specifications of the various departments of the Army Privy Council and the Navy Command were further improved, and the ministers of each department were given the rank of admiral, which was just enough to be used to arrange these people.
The replacement of the old and the new in the military is very smooth, and although the veterans have taken a back seat, they are still active in the military circles and their influence is still not small.
But the replacement of the old and the new on Wenchen's side was not so smooth.
Compared with the generals, there is the influence of the traditional factors of the bird and the bow, but there is not much influence of this kind on the side of the Wenchen, on the contrary, many Wenchen feel that after the unification of the world, it is the time for them to display their talents.
During the War of Unification, the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty, like many civil officials in the founding stage of the country, belonged to marginal roles and were not taken very seriously.
However, after the reunification of the country, this unified world has become the governance of the world, and at this time, the role of civil officials has been greatly reflected.
Many civil officials are waiting for the reunification of the world to give full play to their talents and win glory and wealth, how can they be willing to be reunified in the new eradication, that is, they will take a back seat.
But this is just the idea of civil officials, but Li Xuan's idea is different.
Li Xuan believes that in the early stage of the founding of the country, the quality of the civil service class was really not good, and the civil officials who rose in the Huangzhushan era represented by Liu Bagou were really not very good, and they were able to keep up in the early days, but in the later stage, their ability was no longer able to meet the needs of governing the world.
After all, there is a big difference between governing a country with a population of more than 150 million and governing a den of bandits.
Therefore, in the past two days, Li Xuan has always wanted to complete the replacement of the old and the new between civil officials!
However, although Li Xuan did this, Li Xuan's approach was relatively stable, he didn't want the early Wenchen to be ousted from power, which would not only make the old courtiers chill, but more importantly, the political influence was too great, and it was easy to cause all kinds of turmoil that Li Xuan did not want to see.
Now that the empire has just been unified for only two years, it is the time when it is necessary to cultivate and recuperate and vigorously develop, but there is not much energy to focus on political struggle, so Li Xuan must control the situation.
Qian Qili's incident is a result of his deliberate control!
The people below have long been dissatisfied with Qian Xuanli, and to a certain extent, splitting the tax department is also a prelude to their desire to pull Qian Aoli off the horse, but many civil servants have not been able to understand some of Li Xuan's political ideas until now.
What political philosophy?
Balance!