Chapter 396: Official Reform
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "You have already talked about the imperial examination system before. We still remember it, so you don't need to say it. What I want to know most now is how Yang Jian changed the imperial court.
You just mentioned the system of three provinces and six ministries, abolishing the previous system. What's the difference between the two? "
Qin An thought for a while and said: "There is a big difference. Before the Sui Dynasty, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the official system of the Qin Dynasty was basically followed, the system of three officials and nine ministers.
You should be familiar with this than me, you still have the imperial court.
Let me just talk about the three provinces and six ministries directly. During the period of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, the three provinces and six ministries system had three provinces: Shangshu, Menxia, and Neishi.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal History was changed to the Ministry of Public Affairs, and the job responsibilities were the same. I told you this.
The Zhongshu Province is the decision-making body, and the chief is called Zhongshu Ling; the Menxia Province is the deliberation body, and the chief is called Shizhong; the Shangshu Province is the executive agency, handling administrative affairs across the country, the chief is called Shangshu Ling, and the deputy chiefs are called Zuo and Youpushe.
In the Tang Dynasty, the power of the left and right servants was very powerful. Although it was also powerful in the Sui Dynasty, it seemed not as powerful as in the Tang Dynasty.
The purpose of this is to divide the post of prime minister into three parts, which can avoid the exclusive power of powerful ministers.
There are many little emperors in history, and then the power was seized by the prime minister. Finally, the little emperor grew up and wanted to find ways to regain power.
There are successes and there are failures.
If you succeed, you can continue to be the emperor; if you fail, you can only be dead.
However, among the three provinces and six tribes, the three provinces can actually be ignored, because they only appeared in the Sui and Tang dynasties.
The six departments under the Shangshu Province that we really need to pay attention to are: Officials, Li, Bing, Duguan, Duzhi, and Gong.
The six ministers were ministers, and these six ministers continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty, so there is no need to know too much about the three provinces.
What really needs to be understood is the six parts. If these six parts are not good, they will never be continued by other dynasties.
The six departments are in charge of the assessment, appointment and removal of officials, household registration and taxation, etiquette system, military administration, law, prisons, water and land engineering, etc.
The decentralization of power among the three provinces weakened the power of the prime minister and strengthened the imperial power. The responsibilities of the three provinces and six ministries are clearly divided, which improves administrative efficiency and strengthens the central governance strength. "
Ying Zheng nodded slightly and said: "Old Li, Old Feng, what do you think of these three provinces and six departments?"
Li Si said: "Reporting to the village chief, these three provinces and six ministries can indeed strengthen the imperial power and divide the power of the ministers.
But if this was proposed in the court, I am afraid it would be vetoed by other officials. "
"You are going to propose this system to the imperial court from all over the country?" Qin An was shocked.
Ying Zheng said: "What? Isn't it possible?"
Qin An shook his head and said: "It's not that it's impossible, but there are too many things to consider. The imperial court implements the Nine Ministers System, and suddenly it becomes the Six Ministries System. So what are you going to do with the three officials?
In fact, in my opinion, whether it is the nine ministers system or the three provinces and six ministries system, as long as the officials govern the country clearly, the world will be peaceful. "
"It's a good saying that the officials will govern the Qingming Festival and the world will be peaceful." Ying Zheng said, "Then do you think the officials of Qin Dynasty will govern the Qingming Festival?"
"To the people of Qin, the Qin Dynasty may have officials governing the Qingming Dynasty, but to the Six Kingdoms, it is tyranny.
If it's for me, I don't know.
Historically, when people discussed the achievements of the First Emperor, they only analyzed the rights and wrongs of the First Emperor from the perspective of future people, and did not consider the common people during the First Emperor's period at all.
If I become a laborer in Lishan Mountain or the Great Wall, then I will not say how good the First Emperor is, nor how good the Qin Dynasty is.
I will only curse the First Emperor to die early and the Qin Dynasty to die early.
The corners of Ying Zheng's eyes twitched. Is it necessary to be so cruel? Just ask yourself, why curse yourself.
Li Si and Feng Quji wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh. They were wondering what Qin An would look like if he knew that the father-in-law in front of them was the First Emperor.
Meng Wu looked at Qin An in shock and wanted to give Qin An a thumbs up. This is not how he was looking for death.
Ying Zheng suppressed his anger and asked slowly: "Then if you were a member of Great Qin, what would your idea of a clean and bright administration be like?"
Qin An couldn't help but raise his head, thought for a while, and said: "If I really lived in the Qin Dynasty and didn't have the knowledge I have now, what I should want most is to be able to fill my stomach and wear warm clothes in winter.
It takes a few acres of land and a cow so that he doesn’t starve to death.
The official administration of Qingming is actually to meet these conditions, and then when the people are in need, the government can come forward to help the people.
The imperial court will issue a series of policies that care for the people, and the officials will work hard for the imperial court and will not bully the people.
Even if there is labor, at most it will be done locally. In later generations, the imperial court basically did the labor work wherever it was, and there was no need to leave their own place at all.
But the First Emperor transferred the people from there to this side, and the people from here to that side. I know that its biggest purpose is to disperse the people of the Six Kingdoms, so that there is no need to worry that they will rebel against Qin.
But this thing happened to do exactly the opposite. On the contrary, it made the people hate Da Qin and the First Emperor even more.
In fact, the First Emperor did not understand one thing at all. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, there would be no six kingdoms, only Qin.
There are no more people from the Six Kingdoms, only the people of Qin are left.
If the First Emperor was assassinated because he was afraid that the people would rebel against Qin, he would suffer the consequences.
If he treats the people well and makes them live a better life under the rule of the original monarch, whoever is willing to rebel against Qin will assassinate him. "
"Sometimes it was not the people of the Six Kingdoms who assassinated the First Emperor, but the remnants of the royal families of the Six Kingdoms, or some family members of officials from the Six Kingdoms who were killed by the First Emperor," Ying Zheng said.
Qin An said: "Then let the people of the world help the First Emperor find the assassin to kill."
"How could they help the First Emperor search for him?" Ying Zheng sneered.
"That's what my father-in-law thinks." Qin An said, "If it were me, I would implement a series of policies to favor the people, and then tell them how their current treatment is different from their previous treatment.
After comparing the two sides, would the people want to be people of Qin or people of the Six Kingdoms?
In fact, the common people are just a group of children, a group of children who are mothers if they have milk. They can feel whoever treats them well and who treats them badly.
Immediately afterwards, I carried out another fake assassination, and then issued an edict to accuse myself of what I had done wrong, such as unifying the six countries so that the people would no longer be forcibly recruited by the six countries to go to the battlefield, but allowing the royal families of the six countries and the six countries to Officials lost their power.
Let them lose their original good life, so that they can no longer insult the people, beat the people, so that they can no longer make the people work for them, etc.
He blamed himself for everything that the royal families and nobles of the Six Kingdoms had lost. After the people knew about it, they also blamed themselves for not rescuing the people of the Six Kingdoms early and bringing benefits to the people of the Six Kingdoms. "
Some people died, but not completely...
