Zhang Liao and several military divisions discussed the matter of Liangzhou and Hebei, Xun Yu and several military divisions had no other suggestions for the time being, only looked at Zhang Liao, such as today's son was held hostage by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Yu poison to the east, the court existed in name only, Zhang Liao and added the title of Duke of Jin, although the country was not built for the time being, but the institutions under his command must be adjusted, otherwise the decree could not be reached.

He had actually considered this question a long time ago, and he had been recuperating in Lujiang for a long time, and he had pondered it carefully, and he had planned to go back to Luoyang to convene Xun Yu and others to discuss after a while, but now they came just in time.

Zhang Liao groaned and said very bluntly: "Today, Zidong goes, the imperial court does not exist, I am the Duke of Jin, although I do not build a country, political affairs cannot be delayed, and the political system must be divided." How to divide the division, I have a word in advance, absolute concentration of power, will inevitably lead to corruption, not good for the top, bad for the officials, not good for the people. In the past, the decrees were all issued by Shangshutai, but now they have to be slightly divided. ”

Previously, Shang Shuling had great power, and if he didn't count the ministers, he was completely equivalent to a prime minister.

After listening to what Zhang Liao said, the others were silent, Xun Yu showed a look of approval, bowed down and said: "The absolute concentration of power will lead to corruption. ”

Zhang Liao had a smile on his face, he knew that Xun Yu had always been fair and gentle, and he was never selfish, so he directly said his intentions, and sure enough, he got Xun Yu's approval, and if he was someone else, I am afraid that he would have any ideas.

He continued: "From now on, there will be three provinces and six departments under my command, and before the founding of the country, it will be called three divisions and six Cao. ”

Xun Yu and the others were shocked when they heard this, only from one three provinces and six departments, they knew that Zhang Liao must have made a big move this time, and immediately listened carefully.

And Zhang Liao also said very slowly: "The three provinces are Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, and Supervision Province, and they are only responsible to their own government."

In addition to the provincial lord of Shangshu, he oversees government affairs, and sets up Shangshu orders, left and right servants, as well as officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers Six Shangshu and waiters.

In the main department of the province, he is in charge of the secret, and the main advice, decision-making, deliberation and draft order, set up the Zhongshu order, the servant, and the councilor, and the consultant responds on weekdays.

As the name suggests, the Ministry of Supervision is the main inspector according to the supervision, with a supervision order and three envoys under it, who respectively supervise the hundred officials, the judiciary, and the salt and iron taxes, and impeach for dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty and lawlessness. ”

Zhang Liao paused, and said: "On weekdays, the three divisions perform their duties within the scope of their duties, and they only need to report to this commune. ”

So far, Zhang Liao can be regarded as an institution that he has pondered for a period of time, which seems simple, but in fact it needs to be weighed repeatedly, not to mention that he is still a layman.

Moreover, he is also called the Three Provinces and Six Departments, but except for the Six Departments, the Three Provinces are actually different from the three provinces that developed later in history.

Historically, the three provinces were Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, and Menxia Province, with Shangshu Province as the highest administrative body responsible for implementing important national decrees, Zhongshu Province as the decision-making body, responsible for drafting and issuing edicts, and Menxia Province as the deliberative body, responsible for reviewing government decrees.

Now Zhang Liao has merged Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province into one, and put the supervision of Tige in the same position as Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province.

Because history has proved that the three provinces and six ministries in history are not so reliable, and it is easy to cause prevarication and low efficiency.

The evolution from the Three Princes and Nine Emperors to the Three Provinces and Six Ministries began with Cao Cao in history.

The largest authority in the Eastern Han Dynasty is Shangshutai, which commands the affairs of hundreds of officials, but it still belongs to the Shaofu sequence in the system, and belongs to the inner court institutions.

When Cao Cao ascended the throne of Wei Gong, Shangshu ordered Xun Yu to oppose it, so that Cao Cao was jealous of the power of Shangshutai, and then when he ascended to the throne of Wei, Cao Cao placed the secretary order, and the Shangshu performed things, and the power of Shangshutai was restrained and divided for the first time.

When Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, he thought that Shangshu Zhu Cao had too much power, so he set up the Zhongshu Province on the basis of the secretary decree established by Cao Cao, and was in charge of confidential information and drafted and issued edicts.

In the later period of the Three Kingdoms, the status of the attendant institution of Emperor Wei Shu Wu continued to improve, and in the Western Jin Dynasty, the attendant institution officially became the province of Menxia, and the power of the province gradually expanded during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the government of the Northern Dynasty went out and became the center of gravity of the central power institution.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Menxia Province and Zhongshu Province were in charge of the same secret, discussing national affairs, and responsible for reviewing edicts, signing seals, and having the right to refute them. Under it, there are officials such as the Yellow Gate Squire, the Servant of the Giving Affairs, the Loose Cavalry Attendant, the Counselor Doctor, and the Living Lang.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, three provinces and six ministries were formally established, nominally there were five provinces of Shangshu, Menxia, Neishi, Secretary, and Neishi, in fact, the secretary province was similar to the later pavilion, in charge of books, compiling national history, and the Neishou Province was a special eunuch institution, and the three provinces of Shangshu, Menxia and Neishi really presided over the central power. The three provinces restrained each other and were jointly responsible to the emperor. The three high-ranking officials are all ministers, and at the same time, the three dukes and the three divisions also participate in the government and are also prime ministers.

In the Tang Dynasty, the three-province system was transformed into two provinces and one province soon after its establishment. This is based on two reasons, one is that the separation of power among the three provinces will inevitably lead to mutual conflict, low efficiency and other drawbacks, but in order to control the power of the prime minister, the emperor gradually put the Zhongshu Order, the Shizhong, the Shangshu Order, and the left and right servants of the prime minister's positions into a virtual and constantly reduced, and the use of some officials with less seniority to participate in the "same Zhongshu Sect under the second grade", with low-grade officials to actually exercise the power of the prime minister, because there is no noble system of the prime minister, so it is easy to control.

From the time of Tang Gaozong, the three provinces gradually co-ordinated the deliberations and offices, and the functions of the three provinces gradually tended to be mixed and integrated. During the Yongchun period of Tang Gaozong, Pei Yan moved to Zhongshu from his service, and was the relocation of the political affairs hall in Zhongshu Province, which established the central position of Zhongshu Province. In the eleventh year of Kaiyuan, the Zhongshu ordered Zhang Shuo to change the political affairs hall to the Zhongshu Gate, and then divided into five rooms: officials, cardinals, soldiers, households, and torturers. Since then, Zhongshu has officially become the office of the prime minister, and Shangshu Province has no real name.

By the time of the Five Dynasties, due to the successive wars, the three provinces were in vain, and most of the political affairs were handled by the emperor's special envoys, which became the beginning of the Song Dynasty to send as the main official.

By the Song Dynasty, although the name of the three provinces always existed, they had been mixed into one province. At the same time, due to the establishment of the Privy Council and the Three Divisions, the prime minister's military and financial powers were deprived, and the three-province system existed in name only.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the Governor General of Zhongshu Province was in charge of the three powers, the military, and the Privy Council and the Imperial History Observatory.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was no Zhongshu order, and the six departments of the province were still unified by Zhongshu, and the chief was called the prime minister. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong was punished, the prime minister was abolished, the Zhongshu Province was abolished, and the six ministries were directly responsible to the emperor. At this point, the three provinces of the three-province six-ministry system were completely abolished.

The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, with six books in charge of the world's affairs, on which there were successively the Council of Ministers of the King of Parliament, the upper study, and the military aircraft office.

Therefore, the real system of three provinces and six ministries was actually implemented for a very short time, and Zhang Liao's system of three provinces and six ministries was actually two provinces plus one supervision.

In Zhang Liao's view, as a superior person, he doesn't have to do everything himself, but there are several powers that must be grasped, otherwise something will happen.

These powers are military power, financial power, personnel power and decision-making power, military power Zhang Liao has always firmly grasped in his own hands, and he will also give the ancestral system to future generations in the future, and military power should not be let go at any time.

Zhang Liao controlled several other powers through checks and balances, and the decision-making was realized by holding a cabinet meeting of the three high-ranking officials, and as for the financial power and personnel power, he did not need to firmly grasp it in his hands, but only corrected it by means of supervision.

After clarifying the core organization, the next step is the appointment of personnel, especially the appointment of the three senior officials, which is extremely important, which is related to whether this institution can be better implemented in the initial stage and form a customization.

"Wen Ruo, Shang Shuling is still held by you, you are in charge, I can rest assured." Zhang Liaodao.

There is no doubt that Shang Shuling is still Xun Yu.

Xun Yu has been in charge of political affairs in recent years, loyal and capable, and Zhang Liao is very relieved.