Li Xiao's suggestion is to enrich the Dao level, and it is no longer just a fiction.

In order to enrich the Dao, it is first necessary to set up a standing Dao-level yamen and send permanent officials. Li Xiao's suggestion was to set up three major yamen in Dao, namely the superintendent and the feudal department, and the commander of the superintendent was the observer and transfer envoy, who was mainly responsible for the financial endowment and supervision of the same party, so the official position of the chief was to observe and transfer the envoy, which were originally two existing temporary official positions, which were generally non-permanent and temporary dispatches.

The observation envoy is mainly responsible for the assessment and supervision of officials, while the transfer envoy is responsible for the collection and transfer of finance and taxation.

The prefect of the feudal department is the political envoy who is in charge of the administration, land, and household registration of the same country, and communicates with and supervises the prefectures and counties.

The commander of the Shuai Division is the pacification envoy of the military government, the military cantonment, the military registration, the armament and other affairs.

For example, under the Yamen of the Observation and Transfer Envoy, there is also a special Cao Si Yamen, which is responsible for the transfer of financial endowments, a special warehouse Yamen, responsible for the storage of money and grain, a special Yamen of the Inspectorate, responsible for the assessment and supervision of officials, a special Yamen of the Criminal Division, and a special Yamen of the Criminal Division, which is responsible for criminal and prison proceedings.

These yamen are equivalent to the six cao in the state in the past, but they are subdivided, and then they are divided into three yamen according to their functions.

Li Xiao has a set of detailed explanations for the establishment of the Dao-level yamen, and both Li Zhi and Wu have seen it in detail.

"Your Majesty, the concubine thinks she has thought it through."

"Really?" Li Zhi groaned, "But I thought that the three divisions and the yamen were actually enough to be reduced to two divisions, and the superintendent and the feudal division could be combined into one." ”

"Your Majesty, this is inappropriate." Wu persuaded him.

The Tao is different from the state, there are nearly 400 states in the world, but there are only 17 Dao, especially the essence of the land is only 10, and nearly eighty percent of the population of the Tang Dynasty is concentrated in these ten Dao. This means that the power at the Dao level will be very great.

In the past, the imperial court set up ten provinces, but the establishment of first-level yamen and permanent officials was based on this.

In fact, before the Dao, there were already institutions above one state in the Sui Dynasty, and there were also Xingtai in the early Tang Dynasty, and there were even Daxingtai.

A Xingtai has jurisdiction over several states and more than 10 prefectures, and a large Xingtai even governs dozens of prefectures, and Li Shimin once served as the secretary of Shangshu Ling in the Daxingtai of Eastern Shaanxi Province, and almost half of the Central Plains was in charge, and his power was extremely great.

Later, not long after dominating the world, the imperial court abolished Daxingtai and Xingtai. Li Shimin divided the ten provinces, but there were no permanent yamen and officials at the aisle level.

"The superintendent is responsible for the assessment of officials and the transfer of wealth, while the feudal department is only responsible for administration, household registration, etc., and the concubines feel that this division of labor is good, which not only avoids excessive authority, but also balances each other."

A manager is in charge of the people, the one in charge of the people cannot manage the money, but the one in charge of the officials cannot manage the people, after the division of power, the two divisions will not have too much authority, and the tail will not be too big.

As for the Shuai Si, after a little pacification made it permanent, Wu Ze and Li Zhi didn't care much about it.

After all, Li Xiao had already guarded against the possibility of the dictatorship of the martial arts.

The authority of the Shuai Si Yamen is actually not great, because although Shuai Si is in charge of the military, in fact, Shuai Si can't manage much of things.

The government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are stationed in the world, which is managed by the twelve guards, but the senior officers of the twelve guards themselves cannot manage the military government below, and the military governments are relatively independent in non-war times, and are managed by the commanders of the military governments.

And they only have the right to command the troops, and they do not have the right to transfer troops, which is in the hands of the military department, and does not match the twelve guards.

Even the general of the Twelve Guards is unable to mobilize the soldiers of the Twelve Guards in normal times. Although the commanders of the various military offices are in charge of the soldiers of their own government in peacetime, they cannot mobilize a single soldier without the military talisman of the military department and the military order of the guard.

If you really want to fight, the soldiers are in line with the same, and most of them are to draw the troops of various prefectures and governments, and then the emperor selects and sends generals to lead the troops, under this system, the right to command, transfer, and select generals is separated, and the soldiers and generals are separated, and the soldiers are separated from the grain and grass, and the armament is even more separate.

Coupled with the characteristics of the government soldiers cultivating the land in peacetime and sending troops in wartime, it led to the fact that the officers of the Tang Dynasty were rarely able to privatize the army.

Now there is a commander in each province and a permanent economic and strategic pacification envoy, but this system has not been broken.

Their duties in peacetime are to manage the ranks of soldiers, to select government soldiers, and to mobilize and recruit troops and provide logistical support in wartime. Then there is the township brave regiment that can manage a group and the like.

Shuaisi's power is not great, and it is impossible for him to support his own troops.

However, it is necessary to set up this commander-in-chief, and it is mainly logistical support that can always grasp the military aspect.

The military offices in the province are still under the dual jurisdiction of the military department and the guards.

However, there is another characteristic of the provincial first-level official office, that is, each branch can directly manage the business in charge of the subordinate states and counties, such as the Cao Division, which can manage the transportation of the whole state and county, and the warehouse division can manage the warehousing of the whole state.

It's both strips and blocks.

As for the central court of the imperial court, it is no longer necessary to vertically manage the specific affairs of nearly four hundred states, but only to connect with these seventeen provinces.

"So are the six major protectorates of the frontier going to be abolished?"

"Well, each province officially sets up three divisions and yamen, and when the three envoys are dispatched, the Duhufu can also be renamed."

In fact, the nature of the Metropolitan Protectorate and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is the same, both are in the important places of the frontier, set up for military needs, and the governor is in charge of both the army and the people, which is to take into account the particularity and facilitate the defense of the frontier.

But now that the situation has changed, if the provincial-level yamen is actually set up, then even if there is no longer a prefecture and a protectorate, in fact, the border states are no longer independent, and the provincial-level yamen can also be in charge of the administrative and military defense of a region.

"Then summon Li Xiao into the palace tomorrow, and then talk to him in detail about the affairs of these three divisions."

"Okay."

"At that time, the concubine will have to personally ask Li Xiao for the guilt, and actually teach the prince to drink." Wu still hasn't forgotten about it.

"Forget it, it's a little thing, a man is more dignified when he drinks a little wine."

"But the prince is less than seven years old."

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The Hall of Politics.

Li Yifu tapped his fingers on the table with some weirdness, "Do you know how to call Li Xiao in Chang'an now?" ”

"Aren't there all kinds of people who call Li Xiao?"

Ghosts see sorrows, living Yama, as well as capable ministers, traitorous ministers, etc., anyway, Li Xiao is in Chang'an City, there are praisers, and there are contemptibles, in short, there are mixed reviews.

"Li Xiao now has a new title, some people call him the prime minister, saying that he is the private of the Son of Heaven. What does this mean? Doesn't it mean that although he Li Xiao didn't worship the prime minister and didn't add the title of Pingzhang under the same Zhongshu Sect, he is actually the prime minister? ”

Li Xiao really didn't pay homage to the prime minister, but Li Yifu felt that Li Xiao was really a prime minister, because the emperor had to discuss everything with this secretary and supervisor, and even often threw all kinds of ideas that Li Xiao came up with to the political hall to discuss in a grand manner, and even had to implement them.

In many cases, Li Xiao's words are even more important to the emperor than the words of these prime ministers, isn't this annoying?

It took so much effort to let Li Xiao become the secretary of the military department, but now he has become an internal minister.

"If you want me to say, you still have to drive Li Xiao out of Chang'an City, and it's best not to let him return to Beijing for ten or eight years!"