Chapter 549
The Privy Council was in charge of the military and was in charge of the government affairs. It was now called the East and West Government.↖. The emperor seemed to intend to enhance the authority of the Privy Council. He issued an order, and the five chief and deputy envoys of the Privy Council were called ruling together, and together with the nine prime ministers of the Political Affairs Council, they were called ruling together. The Political Affairs Council Pingzhang and the Chief Political Affairs Office were in charge of civil affairs, and the Privy Council was in charge of military affairs. The Privy Council was in charge of military affairs. The decree emphasized that the Privy Council was the leader of the world and the martial power of the Heavenly Heaven.
After the establishment of the Privy Council, the authority was extremely heavy. The Ministry of War that originally controlled the military and political affairs was only the power to select administration and logistics, as well as the selection of low-level military officers. The Privy Council was in charge of military and state affairs, military defense, border preparation, military orders, secret orders, and government orders for the military. Even all the guards were directly under the ranks, recruiting internal and external bans, re-sending, relocation, garrison, and rewards. Even the powers of senior military officers who originally belonged to the Ministry of Personnel were all transferred to the Privy Council. The most important thing was that after the establishment of the Privy Council, civil and military rule, the priest had no right to govern the military, political and military affairs.
Before Yi Feng established the Privy Council, the prime ministers were in charge of everything, and the civil and military affairs were also under their jurisdiction. Although after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, three provinces and six ministries were established, and the prime ministers were divided into four, which weakened the authority of some prime ministers in disguise, but the principle of the prime ministers and the prime ministers remained unchanged. They were the decision-makers of military and national affairs. After Yi Feng ascended the throne, the Political Affairs Hall was established, and the number of prime ministers increased from four to nine. The prime ministers and prime ministers were in charge of all the major affairs.
Taking turns to serve as a political affairs writer, which greatly weakened the power of the original prime minister, especially the power of the Shangshu Province, which was originally monopolized, greatly weakened the power of the left and right purshe. The Political Affairs Hall was established, and the prime minister was increased from four to nine, and the central decision-making body of the court was also transferred from the Shangshu Province to the Political Affairs Hall. Then Yi Feng added the Privy Council, but also stripped the military and political power from the Prime Minister. The five chief and deputy Privy Councilors were in charge of the emperor. Even the Ministry of War among the six ministries, all of which belonged to the Privy Council.
Such an important institution is completely on par with the Political Affairs Hall.
The first chief, fourth deputy chief, five magistrate, and nine magistrates, who were the third chief, six deputy chief, all became the top important officials in the court.
Shi Wansui was suddenly dismissed and was vacant as the deputy Privy Councilor. The current Minister of War Liu Shu said that he was not moved was false. He had already achieved the position of the Inner Shi Ling, but his butt was not yet hot, and the emperor's father-in-law died. He was unwilling to be the emperor's brother-in-law, but he was removed from his post and stayed home for a while. It was his turn to be the nephew. He came out quickly, but in the new dynasty, he only got the position of the Minister of War and returned to his position before he became the Inner Shi Ling. If this were the only one, it would be better, but as soon as he became the Minister of War, the court established him.
He immediately set up a political affairs hall, and then a Privy Council. In this way, he, the Minister of War, who was originally ranked second among the six ministries, is now embarrassed and has suddenly become an idle yamen like the Ministry of Rites. In the political affairs hall, two of the six ministries were ranked in. The Ministry of Personnel and the Minister of Civil Affairs were both awarded the title of deputy prime minister and became deputy prime minister. Originally, the six ministries were ranked, the officials and soldiers were promoted, civil and criminal, and rituals were down. Now the Minister of Civil Affairs has become deputy prime minister. His power as the Minister of War has been reduced and he has become an optional yamen.
Liu Shu was still very dissatisfied. It was just that his wife, Princess Lanling, advised him to be down-to-earth and low-key, so he had to endure it. But now Shi Wansui has been taken away from the position of Deputy Envoy of Privy Council, and he thinks he is most qualified to replace Shi Wansui and enter the Privy Council to become the ruler. He is the current and former Minister of War, and is also the former Inner Shi Ling, the son-in-law of Emperor Gaozu, and the uncle of his son. No matter what, he should be the turn of his son. The last time he re-recognized the title, he was originally the Duke of Jian'an County, but he was demoted to the uncle of Jian'an County. I heard that if it were not for Princess Lanling, he, as a Jian'an County, would have to add a founding country in front and a lifelong life in the back. No matter what, he felt that today's son would be owed to him, and it was certain that he would replace Shi Wansui as Deputy Envoy of Privy Council this time.
Even Wang Bao and Li Jing can be the deputy envoy of Privy Councilors, so what's wrong with him?
However, Liu Shu completely misunderstood Yi Feng's idea. Yi Feng's official position was not about face or qualifications. What he valued more was ability and ability, and also reliability and loyalty. Wang Bao was his old subordinate in Yanshan and the leader of the eighteen cavalry of Yanyun. He has been with him for eight years. He has been through countless births and deaths, blocking arrows and killing himself, charging into battle with him, and loyalty has never wavered. Moreover, after establishing the Huaihuang Army later, he also performed outstandingly. As for Li Jing, it was because of his series of military achievements and also because he was also from the Guanlong Group. He also used him and of course he also had the intention of appeaseing the hearts of the Guanlong people. Just like he used Han Sengshou, He Ruobi and Shi Wansui, these three were famous generals in the court, so of course they were very considerate.
But the Privy Council is extremely important in Yi Feng's court layout, and it must be controlled by itself.
The scale of the Liaodong War escalated, and the war ahead required a stable court. But at the same time, the Privy Council, the highest military organ that regulates military and politics, needs to be in charge of generals who are proficient in military tactics and familiar with the battle formation.
Liu Shu had a chance, he was an imperial relative, an old minister of the previous dynasty, and a minister of the Ministry of War. He was qualified to enter the Privy Council, but He Ruobi, Han Shou and Shou and Shi Wansui had already entered, so Liu Shu naturally could not enter again. When he first chose Shi Wansui, he did not choose Liu Shu because although Liu Shu had served as the Minister of War, he had never led troops or fought wars, and his prestige in the army was far inferior to Shi Wansui. Shi Wansui was able to enter the Privy Council because of his reputation as one of the four famous generals of the dynasty that were rumored by the people. Unfortunately, Shi Wansui was an arrogant person. Even if he had not been drunk and impolite, Yi Feng would not let him stay in the Privy Council for a long time, and sooner or later, it was just about time. Now that Yi Feng had found a reason to drive Shi Wansui out, how could he find another non-confidant to come in?
After Shi Wansui was dismissed, Yi Feng did not let the position he had vacated for too long. After deciding to expand the war in Liaodong, Yi Feng issued an edict to appointed Gao Jia, the General of the Right Yulin Guard as the front envoy of the Privy Council, Shan Xiongxin as the marshal of the border yamen, Qin Shubao as the marshal of the Northern yamen, Dou Jiande as the marshal of the Southern yamen, and followed the adjustment of a general of the general of the army. More emperor-level generals were transferred, and many of the former generals were transferred.
After the edict was issued, it is said that Princess Lanling, the son-in-law of the Ministry of War, and the Minister of War, Liu Shu, the Boss of Jian'an County, fell ill that night. He heard that he was very sick. He couldn't get up and could not go to the yamen to do business. After receiving the memorial for his sick leave, Yi Feng chuckled, shook his head, and then took a piece of text with the imperial pen and red pen behind the memorial, directly allowing Liu Shu to no longer have to worry about the affairs of the court in the future and let him concentrate on recuperation. For this reason, he specially granted Liu Shu the title of Prince's Young Master to Liu Shu, and at the same time removed him from his position as Minister of War, and was replaced by Huangfu Xian.
The next day, Yi Feng issued another edict, and the imperial court moved the capital to Luoyang, and the various government offices of Daxing moved to Luoyang in batches as planned. At the same time, Yi Feng issued an edict to order officials in the capital of Daxing for three generations to be officials and awarded titles, and all the wealthy families with more than 1,000 mu of fertile land or more than 5 million yuan were moved to Luoyang. This decree immediately caused excitement in Guanzhong. Even many ministers in the court wrote letters to oppose this plan, but Yi Feng was unmoved. He moved these powerful families in Guanzhong. The purpose was to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot to avoid the power in Guanzhong.
Strong. Especially the Guanlong Group, Yi Feng has always been very vigilant and careful. Since he wants to move the capital to Luoyang in the Central Plains, he must prevent problems in Guanzhong. Through this migration, it is actually to clean up the Guanlong Group again and finally reach a controllable range. Guanlong Group is in Guanzhong area. It is deeply rooted and powerful. Moving them away can not only enrich the new capital Luoyang area. It quickly forms the political, cultural and military center of Luoyang in the country, but also takes the opportunity to break up these Guanlong Groups and let them break away from their inherent territory.
Yi Feng also considered that this policy might cause a lot of dissatisfaction. In addition, the previous reuse of the Kanto people, the re-appointment of the case and the re-establishment of titles has caused many Guanzhong people to accumulate a lot of resentment. One is not good, and it may really force people to rebel. However, Yi Feng felt that if they really rebel, it would be a good thing. If they really rebel, it would be a good thing. If they can't change their minds and want to be shareholders of the Great Sui Dynasty, but are unwilling to accept only a little bit of stock dividends in the founding team and management team, Yi Feng hopes to solve the problem earlier. If they don't rebel, the rotten piece of meat can only be dragged. Once they rebel, they can just dig out the rotten sores and rotten meat. Although this looks ruthless and cold, it can stand from the perspective of the emperor who ruled the world.
Of course, we must pursue absolute holding, just like later companies. If the founding team and management have a large number of company shares, the founder's descendants may still be the chairman of the company after several generations, but they have already held very few shares, and maybe only 20 to 30%. Once some ambitious and capable people are involved in a rebellion, joining other shareholders to obtain their support, the chairman may lose his position at any time and eventually be kicked out. Isn't this the same thing when Yang Jian seized Zhou back then, and obtained the support of some veterans such as Wei, Li, and Yu, and suddenly turned over the Yuwen family and seized the power of his family.
Yi Feng had cleared the titles, re-established the titles, divided the frontiers of the royal family, and removed the titles that were originally abusing the titles, which were actually regaining control and repurchasing shares. For those founders' teams, their descendants, management, and excellent employees, the general practice of the company in later generations was to give them dry shares, and not to give out the shares of the company directly. Every time a share was given, the boss of the company's control over the company decreased by a point. When it crossed the line of fifty percent, it was quite dangerous. If only twenty or thirty were left, the possibility of being usurped was doubled.
Although with Yi Feng's control and his direct lineage, it would be fine if he did not clean up the Guanlong nobles in his generation, he had to think about whether the heirs of the empire could have the same skills as him. And at that time, his son would hold on, but by his grandson, he would continue to divide the feudal politics and finally reappear, and the emperor would be undermined by the following clans. Centralization and suppression of clans are what the unified dynasties have always been doing. Yi Feng was just relying on his strength to do more radically in a controllable situation.
Cruel, indeed cruel, but it cannot be done.
Moving the rich is also a way for rulers of all generations to deal with the people of the conquest and occupation of enemy countries. They moved the elite class and the rich families from their original place, moved the places with strong control, and went to a new place to disrupt the resettlement, and their old network of relationships was broken, and their ability to fight against the court was greatly reduced. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Qi, they demolished the capital of the Northern Qi, and moved many nobles and powerful people to Guanzhong. Later, after the Sui Dynasty pacified Nanchen, it also moved the capital of Jiankang City of Nanchen directly into plain land, and then moved the Chen Dynasty royal family, many noble officials families of Nanchen, and many wealthy families of Jiankang to Chang'an.
Now, Yi Feng is going to use this trick.
It will give the Guanlong Group a devastating blow, greatly weakening their political strength and no longer threaten the imperial power.
"Closingly monitor those wealthy families, especially Shi Wansui, Liu Shu, He Ruobi, and others who have long been resentful to the court, must be controlled in time for any movement."
In the Ganlu Palace, Yi Feng was splashing ink, copying his newly obtained original works of Wang Youjun's Lanting Xu.
Liu Ying stood respectfully in front of Yi Feng's desk and helped the emperor polish ink. This Lanting preface was obtained by him from the descendants of Wang Youjun. It was originally from a monk who was good at calligraphy. He took a lot of effort to get it. After giving it to the emperor, he received a lot of praise. However, when the emperor praised him, he especially praised him for his good method of obtaining calligraphy. It was not strong, but for the monk to satisfy the monk. This made Liu Ying understand that although he was the emperor's first hawk, in addition to the secret service department, there were also the statistics department and the military intelligence department, and the three departments supervised each other. Just like the secret service department he led was in the palace of all officials.
Like a spy in the middle, Liu Ying didn't know who was around him was a secret spy from the other two departments. But with his professional perspective, there would definitely be many, more than one or two. The emperor stayed in the deep palace, but he could still know the big and small things that happened outside every day. It is said that in the palace, there was also a secret agency responsible for summarizing and calculating the various intelligences submitted by the Supervision Bureau. It is said that they were all composed of eunuchs and palace maids. It was just a rumor, but he had never received any exact information. Although he was always curious, Liu Ying did not dare to spy on this secret at all.
Chapter completed!