In the afternoon, in the palace, Yuwen Wen and his nephew, Qi Wang Yuwen Li, were having a conversation. Yuwen Li, who is currently the Shangshu Ling, will step down next year and be transferred to the Huaiyang Protectorate, sit in the southeast, and monitor the former place of the Southern Dynasty.

Now, at the critical moment of reform, Yu Wenli, as the Secretary of State, has a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, so Yu Wen Wen has many things to explain to his nephew.

But what he wanted to tell his nephew the most was how to cooperate with local governments, Maritime Department, Westernization Department and other "sectors" after taking office to do a good job in the coastal defense and port affairs in the defense zone.

In comparison, the political task of monitoring the hometown of the Southern Dynasty was second.

The Huaiyang Protectorate's Defence Zone is Huainan, Jiangnan and Huainan Xuzhou. Its location is very important, so its responsibilities are also very heavy. Because the defense zone has Huai River and the estuary of the Yangtze River, inland river shipping and sea transportation are very busy, which brings a new problem: coastal defense.

Huaikou and Guangling are both busy inland rivers and offshore transshipment ports, and a large number of civilian ships shuttle through, which is very difficult to manage. In addition to the local roads and state governments, it can be said that there are several "mother-in-law" in these two ports.

If there are too many mother-in-laws, anyone can manage things, and the result of everyone can manage things is that nothing can be managed well.

If a pirate attacks, disguises himself and fakes his ship to enter the port, the local government thinks it is a foreign merchant ship, the Protectorate's Office thinks it is a merchant ship of the two oceans trading company, the Maritime Department thinks it is a warship of the Protectorate's Office, and the Westernization Department thinks it is a canal cargo ship, and everyone thinks it is not under its control.

Then, it is possible that more than a hundred pirates would enter the port in such a big way, then go ashore to burn, kill and loot, and at the same time set fire everywhere, causing a large number of people to flee and trample on each other, and then the other party would rush away before the government reacted.

Who is responsible for the mess left behind?

After talking about pirates, we can also talk about smuggling or human trafficking. These problems are closely related to ship management. Guangling and Huaikou are located at the junction of the inland river and the ocean, and the problems are particularly obvious.

This is the severe situation facing coastal defense. In addition, even if the ships entering and leaving the port area are serious civilian ships, then should the patrol ships of the local government, the Protectorate, the Maritime Department, and the Westernization Department take turns to ask for their identities?

Although the management of ships can be achieved through the hull number, the hull number can be tampered with, so the patrol boat must always confirm in person, and everyone must take care of it, which is to greatly reduce efficiency.

In this way, the time for ships to enter and leave the port will be greatly extended, causing the already busy Huaikou and Guangling Port to become silted.

Therefore, this involves the issue of "joint law enforcement". The corresponding countermeasures are of course being negotiated by the relevant departments and departments, so Yuwen Wen does not need to worry about it, but he must remind his nephew to pay attention.

By the way, I will hear what Yu Wenli has to say. If you have any ideas or misunderstandings, your uncle and nephew will explain it clearly in person.

So, what would Yuwen Li have to think?

Of course, there would be ideas. Yu Wenli, who was the second-rank Shangshu Ling, left the center and left the town and became one of the ten archers. In terms of grade, it was reduced.

So as a balance, Yuwen Wen was awarded the title of the first-rank Taiwei of his nephew.

Taiwei, master and apprentice, Sikong, is the first-rank official "Three Dukes" in the current official system of the Zhou State. It can be said that he is a high-ranking minister. The three Dukes of all dynasties have all had empty positions. Therefore, Qi Wangyu's literary and literary style was promoted, but in fact he had a reputation but no power.

Then he was driven out of Chang'an, stayed away from the center, and went to the Yangtze River to fish.

From the perspective of power game, this is true. Yuwen Wen didn't want to pretend to say, "Uncle has nothing to do, don't think too much." My nephew is not a fool, so how could he not notice the clues?

However, Yuwen Wen was still confident: What is the problem with the royal family leaving the town?

Especially in the Jiangnan area, this is the hometown of the Southern Dynasty. Who can rest assured that the royal family will not be allowed to lead troops to stare at it?

Shao Wang Yuwen also wanted to leave the town and serve as the capital of Jinghu.

Of course, the position of Gyeonggi Protectorate is also important, but Yuwen Wen has no reason to have a son or a confidant minister, but he doesn't need to use a nephew.

All brothers have to settle the score clearly, let alone uncle and nephew.

Some words do not need to be clearly stated, but it is not good to be clearly stated. Yuwen Wen will not kill them all, but there will be precautions that should be there. Yuwen Li understands this truth and knows that his uncle must have made arrangements in secret, but he will not be angry all day long.

Now, I won’t complain in front of my uncle.

The position of escort is currently tentatively scheduled to be appointed once every five years. When it expires, it will return to Beijing as an official in Beijing to avoid becoming an escort. Yu Wenli will work in another place and will come back in five years. The experience of the previous ten years shows that the uncle is still thinking about family affection.

Not to mention, his younger brothers also have appointments and experiences, either leading troops or serving as local officials, not those positions that are noble and have no power.

Therefore, his uncle is indeed thinking about family affection, so there is no need to complain, which makes everyone unhappy.

But Yu Wenli still had questions to raise, because when he stepped down as Shangshu Ling, he thought he was succeeded by King Yuwen Weihan, who had stepped down as the chief supervisor of Youzhou, but his uncle did not fill the vacancy.

Yuwen Wen's answer to this was to leave the post of Shangshu Ling blank from then on.

The responsibilities of the Shangshu Ling are shared by the left and right servants, so no one will be responsible for the Prime Minister Shangshu Ling, the head of the prime minister, from now on.

Why is this?

Faced with his nephew's questions, Yuwen Wen was open and honest: "Even with the Political Affairs Hall, the Shangshu Ling's status is still outstanding, if"

Yuwen Wen almost said, "If you are the emperor, how should you suppress the Shangshu Ling?" But this was inappropriate, so he paused and said:

"If a big shopkeeper in a business has been in charge of personnel, business and daily affairs for a long time, even if the big shopkeeper's job is often replaced, do you think the guys are in awe of the big shopkeeper's job, or are they in awe of the boss?"

"In other words, at a critical moment, if a capable shopkeeper wants to kick the boss away and lead his own team to start a business, do you think the guys who are used to following the shopkeeper's command choose to start a business with the shopkeeper, or stay and follow the young boss he is not familiar with?"

Yu Wenli thought for a moment and understood what his uncle meant. Indeed, the struggle between imperial power and prime minister has lasted for hundreds of years. Once the imperial power is weak, the prime minister can easily become a powerful minister.

Therefore, dividing the prime minister into several and turning it into the current three high officials is the inevitable result of weakening the prime minister's power.

But even so, as an administrative agency, the Shangshu Province still has a great influence on the bureaucratic group. Therefore, the second-rank Shangshu Ling, among the three high-ranking officials, has the highest rank and is still in a strong position.

The ministers of the Zhengshi Hall can be called the ministers, but the weakened Shangshu Ling is still ranked first among the ministers and is the prime minister.

From the perspective of power struggle, the position of Shangshu Ling is still capable of posing a threat to imperial power. When civil and military officials are accustomed to obeying orders to Shangshu Ling, if the situation is wrong, the person who served as Shangshu Ling at the time may cause major events.

If the emperor has good skills, it can effectively restrain the Shangshu Order, so there is no need to worry about anything.

However, if the new king is incompetent or has no experience, the Shangshu Ling may "lose control".

At the least, it is done by Yihuo, and at the worst, it is planned to usurp the throne.

Now, let the position of Shangshu Ling be vacant, and the second-rank "Shangshu Ling" is divided into two, and the second-rank Shangshu left and right, and the second-rank Shangshu will not exceed the Zhongshu in terms of rank. High officials under the sect can effectively reduce the threat of general power to imperial power.

Of course, how to implement such a decision has nothing to do with Yu Wenli. He will handle the restructuring clearly this year and will take office in Yangzhou next year.

Yuwen Wen wanted to leave the position of Shangshu Ling blank, that is, he set it up and did not take it. Of course, it was not a whim: this is to follow historical development.

The dispute between imperial power and ministerial power has been a focus of the struggle between central power among various dynasties and dynasties since the Qin and Han Dynasties. The overall development trend is that imperial power is constantly concentrated and ministerial power is constantly divided.

During the Han Dynasty, the prime minister changed from one person to three, that is, the three dukes. The emperor also set up internal and external dynasties, and formed a service agency to control the prime minister's power with close ministers.

However, as this kind of confidant office grew, it formed a practical administrative center and even replaced the prime minister's power. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the three dukes gradually squeezed aside and posed a threat to the imperial power.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the two provinces and six ministries were established, and the power was further divided.

During the Sui Dynasty, the position of Shangshu Ling was vacant for a long time. When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, because Li Shimin had served as Shangshu Ling, no one had ever held the position of Shangshu Ling since the Xuanwu Gate Incident. His responsibilities were shared by Shangshu's left and right servants.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the prime minister's power was divided again. In the early Ming Dynasty, with Zhu Yuanzhang abolishing the prime minister, his descendants implemented the cabinet system and exercised prime minister's power as a cabinet minister. The thousand-year battle between imperial power and prime minister's power finally ended.

Therefore, Yuwen Wen now decided to leave the position of Shangshu Ling blank and allow the "wheel of history" to "crumble" the power of the prime minister to be broken. It was not because he had suspicious illness and was worried that Shangshu Ling would rebel all day long.

This is an inevitable reaction to imperial power and has nothing to do with personal preferences.

After a while, what should be said was almost the same, and Yuwen Wen did not forget to tell his nephew:

"Although this sea fish is delicious, you'd better not eat it, as it will be the same when you go to Yangzhou."

"After all, although there are fewer parasites on sea fish than on river fish, there are still many. If you eat more sashimi and parasites enter the body, even if Hua Tuo reborn, it will not be saved."

"What my nephew knows is that my nephew never eats raw aquatic products."

"Also, it is best not to eat seafood such as squid, cuttlefish, etc. too often. Eating too much of these seafood is prone to gout. You may not feel it when you are young. When you are old, it hurts, and regrets are useless."

Seeing his uncle's nagging explanation, Yu Wenli was mixed with emotion, as if his father, who had been dead for many years, was reminding him.

Alas, no matter how much you can do with such a capable uncle, the uncle always thinks about family affection.

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