Chapter 390: Negotiation
With the end of the report of the Ministry of Agriculture, the spring ploughing of the Han Dynasty is officially over, the crops of this era are far less abundant than those of later generations, such as growing grain, almost all of them are growing grain, and there will be no other cash crops.
Because for the whole era of the world's countries, food is not enough to eat, such as the Han Dynasty does not have it at all, if there is no spiritual spring water, the current Han will not be able to have today's position.
The spring ploughing of the Han Dynasty is completely over, but the news of the Han Dynasty is not calm at all, the Tang Dynasty is not calm at all at this moment, Wei Zheng has returned to Chang'an, and Wei Zheng, who returned to Chang'an, went to see Li Shimin as soon as possible.
When Wei Zheng saw Li Shimin, he didn't say anything, but sorted out all the things he had collected in Dahan and handed them over to Li Shimin.
In particular, Wei Zheng handed Li Shimin the detailed description of the political system of the Han Dynasty in the two issues of the Han Monthly, and Li Shimin had some doubts about Wei Zheng's behavior.
After reading it, Li Shimin was already a little stunned, to be honest, such a political system ...... He never thought of it, or no emperor from ancient times to the present, took the initiative to reduce his power, mostly to strengthen the centralization of power.
And judging from the history of various dynasties, strengthening centralized power is conducive to the rule of the empire, so Huo Gang's operation ...... Is this a hidden danger for the big man?
"Xuancheng, what do you think about this?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng and asked.
Wei Zheng is different from the previous Wei Zheng, at least when he took the initiative to go to Dahan, it seems that some of Du Ruhui's words caused him some shock, but in any case, Wei Zheng's changes did not change his character.
Although Wei Zheng said that he may not be as good as Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling in some aspects, Wei Zheng is a person who is upright and can't rub sand in his eyes, which is very suitable for him in some aspects, such as imperial history, admonition, or he knows his own positioning.
Because he is different from Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling, there are too many people who give advice to Li Shimin, but there are not many people who can give advice to Li Shimin uprightly, although Wei Zheng has changed some of the parts, it does not mean that he has changed his style of doing things.
Rather, he said that he had changed his mind, and Wei Zheng was too lazy to care about some so-called personal style, and he had already talked about more things in some major matters of people's livelihood.
"Your Majesty, what do you think of it yourself?" Wei Zheng didn't say it directly as before, but asked directly.
Li Shimin glanced at Wei Zheng with some surprise, if he asked in the past, Wei Zheng would say directly, "At present, the entire political system feels more advantageous than our Datang's, especially this election system, which makes me feel refreshed, and the separation of powers they are talking about here is also a bit meaningful, which is conducive to dividing the contradictions between the court and the court." ”
Li Shimin, as an emperor, of course knows that the most important thing as an emperor is to balance the strategy, in the court, it is not a good word to form a private party, and this is not something that should happen, but Li Shimin knows that ministers are also people, as long as they are people, there are good relationships and bad relationships.
It's like above his court, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui don't get along, but if there is no eldest grandson Wuji, in fact, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are not the same style.
In the general direction, military generals like Cheng Yanjin and others can't get along with people like Changsun Wuji, and when there are some big problems, they will almost always oppose each other.
Such things are very normal, and as an emperor, it is very important to balance the abilities of your subordinates.
And like the so-called separation of powers proposed by the Han Dynasty, this makes Li Shimin feel a little refreshing, which seems to put the country's court faction in the light, but if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Of course, Li Shimin didn't know that the separation of powers mentioned by Huo Gang was actually two different concepts from the separation of powers mentioned by the West in later generations, not the same thing.
There is a strange political system in this, but on the whole, Li Shimin sees some interesting things, such as the so-called three-province and six-ministry system in the Tang Dynasty, let alone three provinces, let's say six, and the six ministries govern all things in the world, but in fact, the power of some real power departments of the six ministries is too huge.
But Dahan is different, Dahan has set up a bunch of departments of the same level, what is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Military, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Transport, etc., these departments are at the same level, but at the top of these departments there is the Prime Minister, and a committee.
And in these departments, there is a council, and the lowest level of the council members in this council is the lord of each city and the officials of all levels of the city.
As for the prime minister at the highest level, it is elected by the votes of these members of Parliament.
This prime minister is similar to the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, this is almost the highest first-class member above the court, and it is actually elected by countless small officials, how the other party's parliament works at present, Li Shimin is not very clear and can't understand, at least five years later, when the other party is re-elected, it is possible to know.
In addition, what surprised Li Shimin the most was that Huo Gang, in addition to military power, he no longer managed most of the government's affairs, but handed them over to the prime minister to deal with directly and alone.
In addition, the judicial aspect is much more advanced than Datang's, and it is the Patrol and Arrest Department that is responsible for investigating and judging cases, but it is not the Patrol and Arrest Division that is responsible for punishing.
The patrol and arrest department is subordinate to the Ministry of Security, but the sentencing and other aspects are handed over to the Ministry of Justice, and the two belong to different departments, which means that the public nature of sentencing will be higher, at least like a county in Datang, and the county order almost controls all the military and political power in the entire county.
According to the Han system, the county order obviously can't manipulate everything.
"If you ask me, to be honest, I think this system is a bit interesting, but if you simply look at the surface, you can't see anything, but I think that in this way, some of the contradictions between the officials of the Han Dynasty seem to be no longer the contradictions between the monarch and the minister, but the contradictions between the ministers and the ministers."
"The other thing is that there is a problem with such a system, they need a lot of officials." Li Shimin immediately grasped the most important issue of the Han system.
"Yes, Your Majesty really has a good eye, the Han system has a very good one, that is, the speed of implementation of their administrative orders is very fast, and once these departmental systems are operational, they will become very professional, and professional things are handed over to professional people to do, unlike our Datang, many departments are responsible for a lot of things, but these officials are not proficient in some things." Wei Zheng immediately bent down and saluted.
"There are so many officials in Dahan?" Li Shimin was very curious about this.
"Not at the moment, but they will soon." Wei Zheng smiled.
"Oh?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment.
"Your Majesty should have heard about the recruitment order of the Great Han." Wei Zheng said.
"I heard, after all, our Datang has already spread the word, could it be that Huo Gang really relied on this to find some officials?" Li Shimin frowned slightly and asked.
It's not impossible to find officials in this way, but there is a problem with looking for officials in this way, that is, it is impossible for a country with a perfect system like Datang to adopt it, and only wild forces like Dahan can use it, because everyone is equal, Huo Gang said that whoever is in power can be in power.
"I don't know how many people rushed over in Datang, but at least all the capable people in Changle Continent should have been taken, and the officials found by this recruitment order are not to directly send them to some important positions, but to assign them to various departments, and then conduct an inspection of their work ability."
"If they pass the inspection, they will be appointed to more important positions, and for the big Hans, they have a very large shortage of officials, so they don't mind giving these people more opportunities to show their abilities."
"But this is only one of them, what really surprises me is the second, and the second is the fundamental reason why Dahan will definitely become strong in the future." Wei Zheng said in a serious tone.
"Xuancheng, please speak." Li Shimin also became serious.
"Your Majesty, do you know? At present, the total population of Dahan is about one million, but among the current population of one million, there are more than 800,000 people who can read and write more than 800 commonly used words! Wei Zheng said seriously.
"It can't be!" Li Shimin stood up from his position almost instantly, he was really taken aback by Wei Zheng's words.
What are you kidding, the entire Datang has a population of about 30 million, and now it is impossible to find more than 800,000 readers. The current Datang Dynasty has absolutely no 1% reading rate, and you say that the Han has a population of 1 million and 800,000 literate?! You're going to scare people to death, you know?!
"Your Majesty, the number I am talking about is only higher than this number, not lower than this number." Wei Zheng's expression was serious.
"This ...... How is this possible?! Li Shimin was a little distracted in shock, and subconsciously spoke.
Li Shimin was really shocked, it was hard for him to imagine what a country would be if almost all of its employees were literate. If this is the case, is there still a shortage of officials? He immediately understood why Wei Zheng said that Dahan was short of officials now, but soon there would be no shortage of officials.
"Your Majesty, the minister is talking about literacy, not a reader." Wei Zheng added.