After reading the entire article, Wei Zheng probably had a relevant framework in his mind, but it was not that easy to fill in this framework.
But what made Wei Zheng start to ponder was, why did His Highness give this task to Menxia Sheng?
The Menxia Province is the deliberation body, and its daily responsibility is to review memorials. Bills drafted after discussions between Zhongshu Sheng and the emperor are all reviewed and reviewed by the Menxia Province. If any of these aspects are considered inappropriate, you can directly reject it and ask them to write it again. For example, in order to give the matter, you can make corrections to the edict drafted by the Zhongshu Sheng and let them write it again.
In addition, they are responsible for whether the edict written by His Majesty violates the rules and whether it is appropriate. Otherwise, where would Wei Zheng get so much material to criticize Li Er every day? It all comes from these places.
But now, His Highness has given him a task of the Supervisory Committee. The supervision task of this Supervisory Committee will undoubtedly greatly increase the power of the province. Of course, this is indeed somewhat similar to some of the powers of the Menxia Province. The censors are also censors, right?
Of course, what Wei Zheng didn't know was that Li Ke had thought about it carefully.
In fact, if you think about the so-called separation of powers in the West and the functions of the three provinces, you will realize that they are very similar.
The deliberation and review body of the Menxia Province, and the Zhongshu Province is the highest decision-making body, which formulates and drafts edicts and edicts, just like the edict that originally gave Li Ke the title of King of Qin. It starts with Menxia, and then what happens.
The overall implementation plan of the edict is that after the decision-making body of Zhongshu Province and Comrade Li Er have discussed it, it will be handed over to the Menxia Province for review. After the Menxia Province review and deliberation finds no problems, it will stamp it and then hand over the entire edict to the Minister. Province.
The Shangshu Province is the national administrative agency. The edicts and edicts finally passed by the Menxia and Zhongshu Provinces are finally executed by the Shangshu Province.
For this thing, if the highest position of the emperor is removed, the Menxia Province has judicial power, the Zhongshu Province has legislative power, and the Shangshu Province has administrative power.
There is basically no big difference, except that the ultimate service of the three provinces and six ministries is the emperor, so the Menxia Province and the Zhongshu Province only need to be responsible for the emperor, so their scale is very small, and they do not need lower-level institutions. They only need Just stay in Chang'an.
The Shangshu Province is the specific implementation unit, so it naturally needs the Sixth Ministry and other relevant departments to implement the policy, and there are also many lower-level agencies.
If the emperor is replaced by the entire country as the main body, then the Menxia Province and the Zhongshu Province will naturally need relevant lower-level institutions in order to execute their powers. This is very reasonable.
For example, the Ministry of Punishment, although part of the functions of the Ministry of Punishment proposed to improve the laws of the Tang Dynasty, it only proposed, or simply said, it was a suggestion, because it had no legislative power. The most it could do was to confirm the need for this law through practice. However, the final formulation of laws is still a matter that can only be decided by Zhongshu Sheng and the emperor, so this function does not conflict with the Ministry of Punishment.
And for example, the meeting that Li Ke asked Changsun Wuji to formulate will definitely belong to Zhongshu Province in the future. In the future, the reform of legal provisions in the Tang Dynasty will definitely be passed through this meeting.
As for the final Shangshu Province, as the executive department, in later generations, it would be the government agency of the entire country, the State Council.
Fang Xuanling's task is very heavy, so there is no doubt about Lao Fang's ability to do things. Starting from the Zhenguan year of the Tang Dynasty, as soon as Li Shimin came to power, Fang Xuanling began to hold this position of Shangshu Province. Historically, it has been until Fang Xuanling passed away himself. He had worked in this position for more than 20 years. It is conceivable that Lao Fang's ability is definitely not a problem.
So after visiting various departments of Shangshu Province, Li Ke handed the last memorial in his arms to Fang Xuanling.
"Your Highness, can I not look at it?" Fang Xuanling was a little confused.
"This is a matter for your minister. Whether you read it or not will not affect the subsequent execution. However, I think it is better for you to take a look. If you finish reading it and you have determined the method, your work intensity will naturally increase in the future. Just come down." Li Ke said with a smile.
"But before that, I have a lot more work, right?" Fang Xuanling was speechless.
"You can't say that. It should be said that those who are capable work hard. As the pillars of the Tang Dynasty..." Li Ke said.
Fang Xuanling really couldn't hold it back and interrupted Li Ke at that time: "Your Highness, who is not the pillar of your place?"
"A tall building rises from the ground. If a building is built, it may collapse without even one brick, so everyone is equally important. Of course, people like you, Duke Wei, must be the most important." Li Ke said with certainty.
Fang Xuanling: "..."
I knew it, but he really had to take it. But when he took it, Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly in his heart. He must have seen it when Li Ke gave it to Wei Zheng. Wei Zheng's thin It was only a few pages, but here, good guy, it was a thick stack. Fang Xuanling pinched it, and it was probably thicker than his fist.
How much work is this?
"Your Highness, just give me a hard time. When I am exhausted, Your Highness will not have such a useful person." Fang Xuanling said.
"How is that possible? But I see that Mr. Wei Guogong, you are really not in good health recently. In this case, I asked Zhenren Sun to come over and take a look at your health. In addition, I got a lot of Cordyceps sinensis from Tibet, as well as Dendrobium officinale and other medicines returned from overseas. At that time, I asked Master Sun to prepare some dietary supplements for you. They are not harmful to the body. Duke Wei, please take them on time. Don't worry, these are free of charge and are all national welfare." Li Ke said seriously.
Many of these things are supplements. After all, many vegetables and spices are actually traditional Chinese medicine.
Fang Xuanling: "..."
Li Ke left simply, and Fang Xuanling could only be speechless. After he returned, Chu Suiliang here sorted out the things recorded by several historians, had people copy them, and then took them to find Li Shimin. .
The emperor's daily notes are usually not shown to the emperor. Of course, it is not difficult for the emperor to read them, because the daily notes have to be handed over to officials who compile history. Will he be able to read them then? In fact, Qi Julang also put it plainly that it was for his own "morality". You can't look at it in my hands anyway. As for it not being in my hands, what does it have to do with me?
As for the records recorded by historians, many emperors could read them, but if they wanted to change them, they would be opposed by the historians on the spot and it would be impossible to change them.
As for whether you, the history editor, will change it in the future, that has nothing to do with me.
After Chu Suiliang delivered the things, Li Shimin waved his hand and told Chu Suiliang to go back first. He himself took a sip of the tea next to him, and then asked someone to bring some desserts over, and then he looked at them with relish.
