After dealing with Zheng Tai, the secretary of the original ministry, and Pei Mao, the secretary of the new ministry, Lu Zhi, Cai Yong, Ma Ri, Huang Wan, Yang Biao, and Liu Hong, the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, were about to dismiss the meeting, and Jin Liang hurriedly stopped them: "Ladies and gentlemen, I propose to convene an enlarged cabinet meeting this time, not only to deal with the problem of Zheng Tai's negligence in employing personnel, but also to deal with more important issues. Huang Shangshuling, www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, do you remember what Shangshutai, the predecessor of the cabinet, looked like? ”

Shangshu Ling Huang Wan said with a smile: "Before the reorganization, Shangshutai had one Shangshu Order, and Yulu was a thousand stones, if the three dukes also received Shangshu Ling, then the Yulu was increased to two thousand stones, and the etiquette was also added." Shang Shu servant shoots one person, ranks 600 stones, and the post is still the secretary, and if the Shang Shu order is not there, he will handle official business. Shangshu left and right Cheng each have one person, rank 400 stones, record the clerical meeting, and administer the order and servant. Six Cao Shangshu, each with a rank of 600 stones, has three Gong Cao, who are in charge of the year-end performance appraisal of state and county officials; the Ministry of Cao, who was in charge of elections and sacrifices; Mincao, who was in charge of all the construction and management of the salt pond garden; Ke Cao, who is in charge of escorting the affairs of the ethnic minorities in the border areas; 2,000 Shi Cao, in charge of judicial litigation affairs; Cao, the official of the central capital, is in charge of public security work such as water, fire, and thieves. There are 36 Shangshu waiters, with a rank of 400 stones, 6 people per Cao, and they are in charge of drafting documents. There are 18 people in the history of Shangshu Ling, with a rank of 200 stones, 3 people per Cao, and the main book.

The previous Shangshutai was the central organ of the imperial court's government affairs, which issued both edicts and decrees; Responsible for drafting and issuing the edict of the Son of Heaven; the election of courtiers, which was supervised by Shang Shutai; It also has the right to picket, impeach, and pawn hundreds of officials; Participate in the planning and decision-making of major national political affairs. Although the previous Shangshutai was powerful, the position of the Taiwanese official was humble, and the chief Shangshuling was no more than a thousand stones. is still under Jiuqing. Such a lowly authority. All of them were filled by capable people appointed by the Son of Heaven, which was convenient for the emperor to control. However, in this way, the government is controlled by the Son of Heaven, and if the Son of Heaven is mediocre, the government will be wasted.

Now as today's son is young, although the queen mother is in the court to listen to the government, she is not diligent in government, in order to avoid the abandonment of the government. Xian Ting Gong, you proposed to reorganize Shang Shutai, reorganize it into a cabinet, and enhance Shang Shu's post authority, and so on, although the Son of Heaven and the Empress Dowager were not diligent in government, it did not affect the normal operation of the Han court. ”

Jin Liang looked at the auxiliary ministers present with a smile, and his heart was full of ambition.

More than a month ago, Jin Liang proposed to reorganize Shangshutai into a cabinet and enhance Shangshu's power position, firstly, in order to weaken the power of Liu Han's imperial power. The second is to win over the cabinet ministers, and the third is to adapt to the system of three provinces and six ministries that Jin Liang is familiar with.

The reason why these cabinet ministers agreed to weaken the power of Liu Han's imperial power. It was the two party rebellions of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to be frightened, Lu Zhi, Cai Yong, Yang Biao, Huangfu Song, and Zhu Jun all suffered from the prosperity of the imperial power, and their life and death did not depend on their own merits but on the mood of the emperor, for this, they were very dissatisfied, so Jin Liang's proposal to reorganize Shangshutai was successfully implemented, and the Empress Dowager He Lian and the Son of Heaven Liu Wei had to make some concessions and delegate some decision-making power to the cabinet in order to obtain the support of these respected cabinet ministers.

After Jin Liang's reorganization, the cabinet now has jurisdiction over the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War.

The Ministry of Officials is composed of the original three public Cao, the Ministry of Officials Cao is integrated, and the system of selecting the rank of the hand, the prescription of the examination and dethronement, the canon of the award, and the law of the final system of the establishment of the book, there are four divisions: the Department of Wenxuan Qing, the Department of Inspection, the Department of Honors and the Department of Examination and Merit. The Department of Selecting Officials is in charge of examining the grade of the clerical and listing, awarding, selecting, promoting, and handling monthly selection. The sealing department is in charge of the affairs of knighthood, secular office, grace, difficulty, and sealing. The Department of Auditing and Honors is in charge of civil servants' system, lifelong maintenance, and handling the succession, naturalization, and reinstatement of officials. The Examination Department is in charge of the division and discussion of civil officials, and handles the Beijing inspection and general plans.

The household department was reorganized by the Dasi Nong Yamen, in charge of the country's territory, fields, household registration, taxes, salaries and all financial matters, and its internal handling of government affairs was set up according to the regional division of labor.

Dasi Nong is one of the nine Qings, still exists, in the two Han Dynasty period, Dasi Nong was in charge of rent, money, grain, salt and iron, and state financial revenue and expenditure, now most of the functions and powers of Dasi Nong are transferred to the household yamen, and the functions and powers of Dasi Nong have been changed to the main charge of persuading farmers and mulberry, tuntian, water conservancy, famine relief and other things. The current Dasi Nong is an old man from a big family, and he doesn't care about anything, and the real director is Dasi Nong Cheng Han Hao.

After the reorganization into the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Industry expanded its functions and powers, and was in charge of the system of civil construction, the use of utensils, and the method of dredging ditches and weirs. There are four divisions under the Ministry of Industry: the department will be the division, and the palace office will be built and repaired; Yu Heng Division, in charge of manufacturing, sending and receiving all kinds of official utensils, in charge of weights and measures and coinage; The Department of Water Affairs, in charge of estimating the cost of the project, and in charge of the production of edicts and official documents; There is also the Ordnance Division, which is responsible for ordnance building, which is temporarily controlled by Jin Liang's Central Military Affairs Institute.

He will be in charge of the civil construction of palaces, temples, mausoleums, etc., although he is not one of the nine kings, he is not merged into the Ministry of Industry.

The Ministry of Rites was reorganized by Kecao and Taichang Yamen, Kecao was in charge of protecting the affairs of the border ethnic minorities, Taichang was in charge of the etiquette and music society, the etiquette of the temple, and was also in charge of culture and education, Lingxian administration, and also governed the doctor and Taixue, and the reorganized Ministry of Rites was in charge of the national school affairs, culture and education, doctoral Taixue, and the affairs of the vassal and foreign countries. The current Ministry of Rites Shangshu is an old man of a family who is not well-known but is praised by scholars, and Jin Liang is ready to leave this position to Kong Rong, the current minister of the North Sea.

Taichang, as the head of the Jiuqing, still retained, responsible for the establishment of the state of heaven and earth, gods, the rites of people and ghosts, the auspicious and evil military gifts, jade silk bells and drums and other powerful cultural relics of the official, and at the same time responsible for religious affairs, no longer in charge of cultural and educational affairs.

The Criminal Department was reorganized from 2,000 Shi Cao, who was originally in charge of judicial litigation affairs, and after the reorganization, the Criminal Department was the organ in charge of the national criminal punishment decree and the examination of criminal names. The specific duties of the Criminal Department are: Finalization of various laws. Review criminal cases sent to the ministry in various localities. In conjunction with the three divisions, the criminal department will hear the death penalty and cases of "imprisonment" and directly try the cases above the conviction in the Gyeonggi region, and the criminal department will be established by prefecture.

The military department was formed by the reorganization of the Central Metropolitan Official Cao and the Taiwei Mansion, and the Central Metropolitan Officer Cao was in charge of public security work such as water, fire, and thieves, and the Taiwei was in charge of the merits of the military attachés throughout the country and the basis for promotion, that is, as the emperor's highest military adviser, the reorganized military department was in charge of the internal and external military officials. Soldiers, the number of military facts. There are four divisions under the Ministry of War: the Military Selection Division, which assesses the grade of military officials, and selects and replaces, promotions, inheritances, and gifts; The car driving department is in charge of the national horse administration and post transmission; Examination of meritorious service, the description of military officials, verification, pension, military briefing, inspection, patrol and other matters; The Arsenal Division, in charge of the country's military registration and military affairs.

Jin Liang also led the secretary of the military department, but he did not get the secretary of the military department smoothly.

Since the implementation of the system of all soldiers advocated by Jin Liang, the military department began to take charge of the county soldiers, county soldiers, and township soldiers in various places, although these county soldiers did not have Jin Liang's central army's 'elite' elite, but their combat power was comparable to that of other princes' soldiers, and there were many family figures who used various relationships in order to strengthen their own power. I want to sit on the throne of the military department.

Of course, those people in the family knew that Jin Liang was the first to advocate that all the people should be soldiers, and the central army under Jin Liang's command was the teaching army of the soldiers of various counties and counties. Jin Liang should be the secretary of the military department, so they let the family officials in the imperial court slander Jin Liang in front of other cabinet ministers, saying that Jin Liang is in charge of both the central army and the military department, and the military power of the Xiangyang court is all owned by Jin Liang.

At that time, Jin Liang was still in Hedong, and Lu Zhi and other cabinet ministers were moved by those slanderous rumors and questioned Jin Liang again, so they took advantage of Jin Liang's absence in Xiangyang to appoint Huang Zu, the younger brother of Shangshu Ling Huang Wan, as the secretary of the military department.

Although Huang Zu does not appear much in the romance, his image is very obscene, but in this history, because he is the son of the Huang family of the Lu family in Jiangxia, and after a generation of famous ministers Huang Xiang, although his ability is average, but after the deliberate propaganda of the family, the false name of Huang Zu in his thirties "Shentong Wuluo" has become famous in Jingzhou and even Jizhou, Huang Zu defected from Jiangxia to become the brother of Shang Shuling and cabinet auxiliary ministers Huang Wan, Huang Wan took into account the interests of the family, so he deliberately supported Huang Zu to ascend to the throne, but regardless of the fact that Huang Zu's actual ability is compared with Jin Liang, there is a gap between heaven and earth.

When the appointment letter of the cabinet was presented to the Queen Mother for review and stamping, the Queen Mother He Lian Fengyan was furious and angrily reprimanded Huang Wan: "As a scholar, you want to appoint your brother Huang Zu as the secretary of the military department, could it be that the cabinet was opened by your Huang family?!" Do you Jiangxia An Lu Huang family want to be royal? ”

He Lian and Empress Dowager He scolded angrily, Huang Wan hurriedly fell to the ground and kowtowed vigorously to apologize.

The reason why Empress Dowager He was furious was because Jin Liang only proposed to reorganize Shangshutai, and it was Shangshuling Huang Wan who really participated in the reorganization, Huang Wan and others reorganized Shangshutai into a cabinet and emptied part of the decision-making power of the royal family.

Taifu Lu Zhi has always felt that Huang Zu is in vain, and he will be a little ordinary, and he will not be able to take charge of the military department, but he has not refuted it in the face of his old friend, and now seeing that the Empress Dowager He disagrees, he asked: "Who does the Empress Dowager want to be in charge of the military department?" ”

Empress Dowager He smiled coldly and said: "It was Jin Liang who first advocated that all the people should be soldiers, it was Jin Liang who initiated the reorganization of the cabinet to establish a military department, the most capable of commanding the world's soldiers and horses was Jin Liang, and the most trusted military commander in the palace was Jin Liang. ”

"Jin Liang is already in charge of the Central Army, if he is in charge of the military department and then takes charge of the county soldiers in the world, then the military power of the imperial court can all belong to Jin Liang, Jin Liang may not have ambition, but when he is powerful and has the ability to win the supreme throne, ambition will naturally sprout, maybe he will become the second Wang Mang, the second Dong Zhuo, please think about it!"

Empress Dowager He patted the phoenix chair: "Yang Biao, there are still many children of your Hongnong Yang family who are in Hongnong, working hard for Dong thieves, in order to ensure the interests of the family, what qualifications do you have to say that the loyal Jin Liang is brave!" If it weren't for Jin Liang, the Son of Heaven and I would have died at the hands of Dong Zhuo, and Jin Liang would have the merit of rebuilding the society. Do you dare to compare your contributions to the imperial court with Jin Liang?! Jin Liang was given a position of power in the present day. It was all fought by him with a knife and a halberd. Not like you, who have mostly come in the shadow of your fathers! The palace said that it is said here, that is, you ministers of the family have betrayed the palace, and Jin Liang will not betray the palace! ”

Wang Yue, Wu Chong and others on duty in the palace all drew their weapons and glared angrily at Yang Biao and others, and Yang Biao realized that they were in Xiangyang, whether it was the palace or the periphery of Xiangyang, and the garrison soldiers and horses were all Jin Liang's descendants. If they forcibly take away the military department Shangshu that should have belonged to Jin Liang, they are afraid that these ministers of the family will be attacked and killed by the soldiers loyal to Jin Liang immediately.

These ministers of the family were as timid as rats, and they were forced by the pressure of the empress dowager and the officers and men of the Central Army to appoint Jin Liang as the secretary of the military department, but in order to limit Jin Liang's troops, they particularly emphasized in the duties of the military department that the military department only had jurisdiction over the county soldiers, and had no command power, and only the county lieutenants and county lieutenants at all levels could command the county and county soldiers.

Jin Liang laughed at the well-intentioned painting of those ministers of the family, and the county soldiers were in a subordinate position most of the time in the war. Once war breaks out, the Military Affairs Yuan and the Military Department of the Central Military have the right to command the battle. The county lieutenants and county lieutenants who refuse to be commanded will only end up in a different place, not to mention that the instructors of these county soldiers are almost all officers and soldiers of the Central Army, and these county soldiers cannot get out of Jin Liang's control at all.

Jin Liang thought of the reason why he got the book of the military department, his eyes flashed with coldness, and he glanced at Huang Wan and Yang Biao, these ministers of the family were their allies with themselves when dealing with Dong Zhuo, but they were their enemies when they were fighting for internal power, and when the world was decided, there were probably not many ministers of the family who were worth staying, and the ministers of the family who were unwilling to give up the interests of the family for the interests of the country were not worthy of staying in the court and staying in the world.

After reviewing the process of the reorganization of the six cabinet departments, Huang Wan did not notice the fleeting cold light in Jin Liang's eyes, and asked with a smile: "Xian Ting Gong, I don't know why you brought up the old matter again, let me review the process of Shangshutai's reorganization into the sixth cabinet department?" ”

Jin Liang tried his best to suppress the disgust in his heart towards these family ministers, after all, he still had to use the influence of these respected family ministers to attract the world's scholars and fight those hostile princes, before the value of these family ministers was squeezed out, Jin Liang was not ready to fight with them, and the Chiyou clan had no clear purpose so far, so unless they took the initiative to make evil.

Jin Liang smiled slightly and said: "After such a reorganization, Shangshutai has added a lot of responsibilities in each department, and has also added a lot of divisions, and has increased a lot of officials. ”

Huang Wan was stunned for a moment, and looked at each other with other auxiliary ministers: "Isn't it possible to distinguish the size of the official position by using the official rank, and establish the dignity of the status?" ”

Jin Lianglang laughed and said: "The six parts of the cabinet are high and powerful, but according to the old system of the imperial court, the Shangshu order ranks 1,000 stones, the Shangshu servants shoot the rank of 600 stones, and the six Shangshu ranks 600 stones each. ”

Hearing Jin Liang say this, the cabinet ministers and the six Shangshu servants all fell into deep thought, the previous Son of Heaven set the low rank of Shangshu, which was to highlight the low rank of Shangshu and facilitate control, but now that the cabinet has been reorganized, Shangshu is high and powerful, and it is very inappropriate to continue to use the original rank.

Huang Wan smiled lightly and said, "Isn't it okay to suggest that the imperial court revise the ranks of Shangshu Ling, Shangshu Servant Shot, and Six Shangshu?" ”

Jin Liang shook his head violently and said, "Shang Shuling, do you think that the dignity of an official position can be determined just by Yu Lu?" Some official positions are noble and dignitary, such as Zongzheng, who are just status symbols and have not made much contribution to the imperial court, but the imperial court needs to support them, do you think they should be given rich money? Some official positions have made great contributions to the imperial court, such as Tobe Langzhong, but for various reasons, that official position cannot be noble and prominent, shouldn't they be given a rich salary? I think we should introduce a standard to measure the status of official positions, and separate the level of official position from the amount of salary. ”

Huang Wan and other cabinet ministers all understood what Jin Liang meant, so they asked with a smile: "Virtuous Gong, please elaborate on it." ”

Jin Liang said again about the nine-grade official system that had been used for more than 1,000 years in later generations, but in order to correspond to the twenty-level military ranks of generals, captains, captains, and samurai, and because Jin Liang hated the nine-rank official system very much, he proposed a ten-grade official system, each of which was divided into two levels.

is a product, there are Taifu, Taishi, Taibao, General, State Prince; The second product has Taiwei, Situ, Sikong, Che Cavalry General, Hussar General, Zhusi Zhengzhen General, Shang Shuling, and County Wangjue.

is the second product, there are the four Anping generals, the four generals, the left and right servants, the prince and the young master, the prince and the prince, and the county duke; The second two products have Shangshu, Shizhong, Guanglu Doctor, General Anping of Zhuzheng Town, Jiuqing, Sili Captain, Yushi Zhongcheng, Holding Jinwu, Will be a master craftsman, and Da Changqiu.

Zhengsanpin, there are various departments of the squire, the state pastor, the general of Long Xiang, the general of the tiger ben, the general of the auxiliary country, the general of Duliao, the captain of the city gate, the county duke, etc.; From the three products, there are Dazhou Thorn History, State General, Jianwei, Jianwu and other Jianzhen Yang generals.

The four products have the history of the state thorn, the four sides of the Lang general, the Yulin Zhonglang general, the tiger Ben Zhonglang general, the Zhuhu Yi Zhonglang general, the county marquis, etc., from the four products have the state Cheng, the Diannong Zhonglang general, etc.

There are miscellaneous generals such as Yingyang and Zhichong, Dajun Guotai Shouxiang, Dajun Guoxiao Captain, Township Marquis, etc., and from Wupin, there are Junguo Taishouxiang, Junguo Captain, Doctor Taixue, Guozi Sacrificial Wine, and Dian Agricultural School Captain.

The six products are Shangshu left and right, Shangshu Langzhong, secretary Lang, Shiyu Shi, Fengche Duwei, Horse Duwei, Zhu Doctor, Shi Sima, Hussar Rider Shi Sima, Ting Wei Zheng Supervisor, Zhu Hujun, Si Yan Du Wei, Pavilion Marquis; From the six products include hussars, chariots, Wei generals' mansions engaged in Zhonglang, Sizheng Town Gongfu engaged in Zhonglang, bus orders, large county county orders, and large county lieutenants.

Zheng Qipin has the county order, the county lieutenant, the army chief Shi Sima, the general of the Qiang Rong barbarian Yue Karasuma Zhonglang Shi Sima, the generals of the army are joining the army, the subordinate governor, the captain of the farmer, etc., from the seven products there are the governor of the department, the county and the county, the Lang, the prince's mansion Peng, the door Lang and so on.

There are four Pingsi An generals Shi Sima, three products and four products of the general Zheng Xing to join the army, the county and the country are too shou in the prime minister of the Cheng Changshi, the county Cheng, the state and county captain Sima, from the eight products including the five products of the general Shi Sima, the county lord Bo, the county Gongcao, the township order, the township lieutenant, the township Fu and so on.

Zheng Jiupin, there are Xiangcheng, from Jiupin, there are Xiangzuo, Township Master Bo and so on.

is ten products, there are pavilion chiefs, pavilion captains, etc.; Sub-ten products, there are pavilions, chiefs, etc. (To be continued.) )