Shi Bufan and the county officials of Gyeonggi counties jointly signed a letter, and they were sent to it, which caused a huge sensation in the entire Chang'an. And everyone is speechless for Shi Bufan, the guy who doesn't stop, less than a month ago, Shi Bufan just made the two prime ministers "retired", and now he still doesn't stop, and he hasn't forgotten to add some excitement to Chang'an's officialdom this winter! Now the weather has started to get colder, and winter has arrived. However, the entire Chang'an officialdom is not ordinary from time to time, and the matter of redividing the functions and powers of local county officials has made it lively, and there are even various theories.

Although this is only the division of duties and powers of county-level officials, it is not a trivial matter. Because there are so many counties in Datang, it can be said that the county is the most basic grassroots unit, and this involves the redivision of the functions and powers of county-level officials in the entire Datang, who dares to despise this matter? Once this authority is fully redivided, the impact will be national. So this is not a huge controversy, this is a strange thing. Even this is a non-departmental controversy, and both relevant and unrelated departments have begun to have heated internal discussions. However, everyone has their own opinions on whether or not to redivide the power of county-level officials, so everyone has mixed opinions on this.

Of course, someone was very upset.

"This time is extraordinary, it's really a killing me! actually took advantage of the loopholes in my Datang Tang newspaper to make things so big, it was impossible for me to suppress them. Shangshu Zuo Cheng thought with a wry smile.

Originally, this kind of matter with great influence, Dai Guan, as Shangshu Zuocheng, was probably equivalent to the director of the general office of later generations, and all official documents had to be previewed and preliminarily processed by him, and only major matters would be handed in. Originally, according to the process of handling official documents, such a major event, especially a major event that is enough to cause a sensation in the whole country, must be cautious. Dai Xuan can actually use this official document to have an internal discussion with the emperor and the prime ministers, and only after the discussion has a result, will a careful decision be made.

However, in order to achieve the goal, he did not hesitate to take advantage of the time difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty to spread it quickly. Because Shi Bufan calculated accurately, the official documents sent by an eight-rank petty official like him must be processed in the last order. As a result, this time difference was seized by Shi Bufan, and when Dai Zhou dealt with this Shangshu, letters of support from those counties in other places were sent one after another, and even every day showed a geometric multiple rise, Dai Zhou suddenly couldn't stand the pressure and collapsed suddenly.

There are even so many letters of solidarity, and it is impossible to hide it if you want to hide it, so this caused a sensation.

"Jia Rui, remember, this is just some small means in the advertisement. When a message is released, not everyone receives the news at the same time. This time difference can be exploited, not to mention that in our country, even in the army, there is no shortage of ways to use the time difference to achieve victory. There are many examples of this, and I just used a kind of media, so I used the time difference to achieve my goals. When your future business advertises, you can consider using this method. Even advertisements in newspapers can be considered to take advantage of this time difference. How to use it can vary from person to person, consider it yourself. Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan caused this sensation, it was just the use of some small knowledge in the media advertisement, this Tang newspaper is actually an advertisement, and those counties around the country are also Shi Bufan's "customers". It's just that the peddling is not a product, but a political idea. This loophole in the time gap between the Tang Dynasty newspaper and the official document processing process was exploited by Shi Bufan. In this way, Dai Zhou didn't have time to deal with the official documents, and the letters of support from all over the county had arrived, so Dai Zhou couldn't hold it down at all, and he could only sit back and watch things make a big fuss.

Dai Zhou can only scold him for being shameless, but what else can he do? The rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty are full of loopholes, which may not be seen by the people of the Tang Dynasty, but they can be easily used. After all, Shi Bufan is not only from later generations, he was also a senior lecturer at a famous university in Beijing back then, and he is half of the system, and he is no stranger to these official document processes, and there are loopholes that can be exploited everywhere.

"Shi Xiancheng, the emperor is discussing matters in the political hall, and I have specially asked me to inform you of the past! This time the matter is to discuss the division of power among the counties of the country, so I would like to ask you, the initiator, to discuss it. A eunuch from the Inner Chamberlain Province said.

Shi Bufan packed up his things and hurried to prepare for the meeting, because he had already prepared for this day. Since this matter has become a big problem, it is natural that it should be resolved as soon as possible and stabilize people's minds as soon as possible. Whether it succeeds or not, it must also stabilize people's hearts, otherwise local counties are paying attention to this matter, so of course they must be careful.

Shi Bufan came to the political hall of Menxia Province in the palace and knew that this was the real power core of the Tang Dynasty. Although this is not a formal "institution", just a place to negotiate things, any major decisions of Datang are also made here. This government hall is a place where the emperor and the prime minister discuss affairs, and anyone who can come in and participate in the discussion in an official capacity can be called the prime minister.

The reason for the formation of the political hall is because of the three-province system of the Tang Dynasty, the decision-making of the Zhongshu Province, the deliberation of the Menxia Province, and the implementation of the Shangshu Province. However, there are times when the communication between the Zhongshu Province and the Menxia Province is not smooth, resulting in many affairs that cannot be handled as soon as possible. After the decision of Zhongshu Province, it was repeatedly beaten back by the Ministry of Menxia, so in order to improve administrative efficiency, the emperor had to hold a meeting for preliminary discussion when he encountered a major matter that required the cooperation of various departments. After the governors of the three provinces reach a consensus, they will perform the official formalities again, so that because they have been preliminarily discussed and approved in advance, a consensus has already been reached, so that they can also pass it quickly.

At the beginning, only the governors of the three provinces of Shangshu under the Zhongshu Sect were able to enter the political affairs hall to enter the political affairs hall to discuss things, but later some people could be qualified to enter the political affairs hall to discuss things by adding various titles, such as "Participating in the Governor's Political Affairs", "Participating in the Preliminary Political Affairs", "Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhang Affairs" and other different titles, and these people who are qualified to enter the deliberations can also be called the prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty. The government hall also changed from an ordinary small room at the beginning, to a de facto state center later. Although it is not a special body, everything can only be passed after consultation with the government council. The process of three provinces and six ministries had been disrupted in the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty.

"Maybe one day, I can actually walk into this room!" Shi Bufan whispered.

This time, Shi Bufan was able to come in, not officially, but just being called in. If you want to really enter, you have to become a prime minister.

"Your Majesty, Shi Xiancheng has arrived!" The eunuch said.

Shi Bufan walked in, and here Emperor Li Shimin, as well as Fang Xuanling Du Ruhui also arrived. There are a few other people, one is Pei Ju, Pei Ju has been granted the status of participating in the governor's affairs as the head of the household, and he is qualified to come in to discuss matters.

"I've seen the emperor!" Shi Bufan said first.

"Okay, Shi Bufan, you and the counties of Gyeonggi jointly signed a letter, hoping to redivide the rights and responsibilities of each county, why do you have to do this?" Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, since I served as the county governor of this Wannian County, I have seen that in my Datang counties, almost every county order has the highest authority, and almost every county order has absolute power in a county. Rongchen said something unpleasant, every county order is the local 'soil emperor', and even the minister has heard of many distant counties, but he only knows that there is a county order, but he doesn't know that there is an emperor. ”

Hearing Shi Bufan's words, Li Shimin's face changed a little, especially when he heard that those county orders were "soil emperors" one by one, and even the local people only knew that there were county orders, but they didn't know that there was an emperor, which made Li Shimin, the emperor, very tired.

Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling, obviously wanting to confirm with Fang Xuanling whether this was true. Fang Xuanling could only nod, because in ancient times, in many places far away from the capital, some people only knew the county order, but not the emperor. However, Fang Xuanling did not say that in the Shandong region east of Taihang Mountain, many people only know the scholars, not the emperor.

Shi Bufan saw that Li Shimin, the emperor's face turned black, and immediately knew that he had succeeded most of the time. Because any emperor who hears this kind of local people is just a county order, and he doesn't know the emperor's words, it is also a very black face.

There is a reason why ancient officials complained, especially those feudal officials, that is, the people only knew him, not the emperor. Any emperor is very unhappy when he hears this, and this is affecting the emperor's imperial power.

Any king hopes that he can be "Weijia Hainei", but when a county commander can be a "soil emperor" who is powerful and prosperous, of course he can't be happy. This Shi Bufan grasped the death hole of the feudal emperor who valued power and wanted to concentrate all his strength, and it was much easier to persuade him in this way.

"Did you give this note?" Li Shimin took the joint letter and said.

Shi Bufan nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that since a county has set up a county order, a county lieutenant, and a master book, the positions of these people have also clarified their powers, but why are they not clear about the functions and powers of the county officials?" The county is to assist the county order, but there is no clear order on how to assist, which is very embarrassing! Even a classless county magistrate dares to bully the county magistrate, and at present, the source of my Datang county officials is mainly to promote locals on the spot. Of course, it's not really locals, that is, they are selected from nearby counties, so they are cross-appointed. ”

"But isn't it bad that all of these county officials have been in the same place for a long time? Some county officials have been officials in the same place for many years, or even most of their lives. Even if he wasn't born here, he was no different from the locals for most of his life. In addition, there is very little turnover of officials in Datang County, and it is almost impossible to have many movements, which further exacerbates the rigidity of long-term office. ”

"According to my Datang annual assessment, if you can't meet the conditions for promotion, you will stay put. However, there is a limit to the number of officials promoted every year in my Datang, and it is impossible for all of them to be promoted. In particular, it is even more difficult to promote county officials. The county magistrate of a county is there almost all his life, and the county magistrate of such a county even has to be bullied by a scribe, because the clerk's authority is greater than his. ”

"This is not a red fruit of the lower offenses, how can the upper and lower be humble?"

Li Shimin's old face turned red, last time he reprimanded that Liu Renliang for killing a fifth-grade lieutenant with a nine-grade official, and the excuse he used was that the upper and lower levels were not respectful. But now Shi Bufan also uses this reason, an ordinary scribe with no grade, or even an official who is not in the stream, dares to insult a person who has entered the stream like this, and the lowest is from the county of the ninth grade, so there is no dignity. In the Tang Dynasty, it was officially about those who did not enter the stream, and those who did not enter the stream were just ordinary scribes, and a scribe dared to bully the officials who entered the stream, which was simply more terrible than a nine-rank official beating a five-rank official. The Jiupin official is "within the establishment", but the person who does not enter the stream is obviously "outside the establishment", and it is really unreasonable for a person who is "outside the establishment" to bully the "establishment" so much, and there is no condescension from the upper and lower levels.

Shi Bufan used this excuse, so Li Shimin really couldn't refute it. Because this group of officials who have entered the stream is also an "interest group" when facing those scribes, they naturally cannot favor those who are "outside the establishment".

"Therefore, the emperor, the minister suggested that the emperor could adopt the method of dividing power. Isn't a county based on a county order, and the county has a county lieutenant? Among them, the county magistrate can be responsible for presiding over the operation of the county, which still retains his status as the governor of a county. However, in the daily division of labor, it is possible to use the transfer of the secretary in charge of the county order, the division of the duties and powers of the scribe to arrange the appointment, as well as military service, imperial examination, talent and other affairs. The county is responsible for agricultural affairs, money and valley taxes, and civil construction. As for the county lieutenant, he is only in charge of the prison. ”

After the division of powers, it is impossible for the people to know that there is a county order, but also to know that there are other county officials, so as to avoid the fact that a county order can be autocratic. In this way, the county is given the right to do so, which can prevent a scribe from daring to bully the county and maintain the dignity of my Datang. ”

Shi Bufan's meaning is obvious, that is, to divide the power of the county commander as the number one, and divide the power into the county commander, so that the county commander can play the role of supervising the county order, so as to avoid the county commander can hold absolute power and be a soil emperor. (To be continued.) )