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The center of the Daqin Empire, and the official system

The Great Qin temple is divided into a cabinet and a military hall. The cabinet nominally controls national affairs, but in fact it cannot involve military power. In addition to being able to restrict the emperor from launching wars and boycotting the military budget, the cabinet has no right to speak for the personnel transfer, appointment, combat and command of the army.

cabinet:

The Secretary of the Central Committee, the Minister of the Ministry of the Shang Dynasty, was called the cabinet and was the head of the civil servants of the imperial court. Except for the Military Hall, the other provinces and ministries were all under it.

At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, the Qin Dynasty had no cabinet. In name, the state was discussed by the emperor and the Prime Minister of the Secretariat and drafted the government decree. Only after the consent of the ministry was approved by the ministry, could it be handed over to the Secretariat for implementation. The Secretariat was the power of the emperor, while the ministry represented the power of the nobles. Therefore, the Central Qin Central could be said to be a collegial system composed of ministers from aristocratic origins. However, during the 50th year of the founding of the country, Taizu, Taizong, Wu Emperor, and the three Emperors of the Qin Dynasty personally led the army to fight outside the war, and had no time to do state affairs. So after Taizong (Cao Ang) ascended the throne, he established a cabinet, with the prime minister of the three provinces together with the Grand Secretary (two) appointed by him, and the Prime Minister of the State Affairs Office. Even after the reign of the court, he only attended court on the first and fifteenth day of the dynasty, and later it became a tradition.

Three sentences:

The Secretariat of the Central Secretariat was in charge of the edicts and the drafting of the government orders;

The subordinates are responsible for deliberating on the filing and draft of the Secretariat to decide whether to implement it or not;

The Shangshu Province is the administrative office, and it is divided into six ministries: officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and work. Each has one Shangshu, one left and right assistant minister (deputy position), a doctor (director), and the chief minister.

Six parts:

Ministry of Personnel: Responsible for the management, assessment, promotion, etc. of officials

Ministry of Revenue: There are thirteen departments that manage income and expenditure and reimbursement in various places respectively

Ministry of Rites: in charge of national good and bad ceremonies, education and examinations, entertaining foreign guests, banquets for meritorious officials, etc.

Ministry of War: Only responsible for logistics, military and armor, etc., is actually a vassal of the military hall.

Ministry of Justice: Manages the reputation of punishment in the world.

Ministry of Industry: Manage construction, logistics, water conservancy, manufacturing, etc.

Supervision Office:

The supervision department directly belongs to the emperor. It has the left and right censors, the left and right deputy censors, and the left and right deputy censors. It has the thirteen supervisors and censors. The thirteen supervisors and censors and the six supervisors directly belong to the emperor are collectively called "Kadao" and belongs to the category of censors.

Six subjects:

He is in charge of attendants, advises, supplements, picks up the deceased, and inspects the affairs of the six departments. He enjoys the right to "copy", "copy" and "revoked". Revocation means that the imperial edicts and memorials are submitted to the cabinet for filing every five days. The executing authority shall handle government affairs within the designated time limit and shall be cancelled every five days after verification by the six departments. The six departments shall copy the internal and external memorials of the court and the imperial edicts and imperial edicts, and shall be copied according to the contents of the relevant official offices. The subject means that if there is any inconvenience in the order of the superior, the minister can be refuted and paid back.

Five temples:

Dali Temple: the highest judicial organ in name, together with the Supervisory Court, the Ministry of Justice constitutes the Three Judicial Departments.

Taichang Temple: in charge of sacrifices and rituals.

Guanglu Temple: in charge of banquets and rewards.

Taipu Temple: manages horse politics and post station.

Honglu Temple: In charge of entertaining foreign guests.

Imperial Hospital:

Manage the palace and aristocratic diagnosis, pharmaceuticals.

Taixue University:

In the highest institution of study in the imperial dynasty, basically all civil servants came from the Taixue School. The annual autumn examination of the Taixue School is equivalent to the imperial examination. Anyone must complete five years of academic studies in the Taixue School before he can become an official; among them, Legalism, Mohism, Confucianism, Taoism, and military strategists are the five theories that must be learned, and as for some special official positions, they must learn the corresponding theories.

Military Hall:

The highest military institution directly under the emperor has the strength to compete with the cabinet. But in fact, the official name of the military hall is the White Tiger Festival Hall, which is only the staff hall of Chang'an Protectorate. However, it is the source of war. Almost all foreign wars come from here.

Jiangyuan:

In the institution where the emperor personally served, all officers of a thousand-level personnel must come from the Jiangyuan, which range from March to one year. For some officers who started from the battle formation and did not know how to write, the Jiangyuan's experience was very important.

Third Chief:

The Chief of the Army, Sima, is known as the Third Chief of the Military Hall. Among them, the Chief of the Army is the nominal supreme commander and the deputy commander of Sima Xing. Although the Chief of the Chief has only the power of the staff, it is the most important of the three chiefs, because the staff officers who go to various places to assist military affairs only obey the Chief of the orders except the emperor.

Governor of the Five Army:

Apart from the three chiefs of the military hall, the real military power of the empire is actually under the jurisdiction of the four major prophets. They are the Chang'an Protectorate, the Beiting Protectorate, the Anxi Protectorate, and the Jinling Protectorate. Among the five major prophets, the Chang'an Protectorate, the most powerful military power is divided into two parts, stationed inside and outside the imperial capital, with two great commanders, and together with the other three major commanders, they are collectively called the Five Army Governors.

Feudal towns:

The military towns under the Protectorate's Office have military strength ranging from 300 to 10,000 yuan, and are responsible for garrisoning the border. They rotate soldiers every year, and the generals are more than three years and less than five years.

Zhechong Mansion:

The four major procuratorate's troops were divided into three levels, including upper, middle and lower levels, 1,200 people in the upper palace (sometimes increased to 1,500 people), 1,000 people in the middle palace, and 800 people in the lower palace. They were distributed in various places, and the officers sent by the military hall were selected, and the outstanding ones were selected into the Procuratorate's Legion. At its peak, there were a total of 847 places in Zhechong Prefectures in various places, with a huge force of 1.2 million, but now they are less than 300.
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