In the Qianyuan Palace, Zhang Jian did not go to Da Fu or Gao E Niang for the first time, nor did he go to any of his favorite concubines. Instead, he came to the palace of Queen Cao Yanxi.
In the past two months, Zhang Yan gave birth to three more children, and Cao Yanxizhao finally gave birth to a little prince again. It was considered a double insurance. Since then, the gloom has gone away and she looks radiant.
At the same time, Cao Yanmian also gave birth to a baby boy as he wished, and Princess Sefiye of Saman Persia also bought a small cotton-padded jacket for Zhang Gao.
Cao Yanxi didn't expect Zhang Yan to come, and Zhang Yan didn't let anyone inform her. She was about to send the three crying babies away, but Zhang Yan stopped her.
Zhang Yan, who has been busy dealing with various emergencies recently, rarely put down everything and had fun with the three little children. In the evening, he comforted Queen Cao Yanxi.
This is really comforting. Cao Yanxi has just given birth and is not suitable for other things.
And Zhang Zhang also felt that Cao Yanxi was under a lot of pressure. She had been trying her best to follow Zhang Zhang's pace and become a qualified queen.
The queen at this time was not comparable to those of later generations, especially those after the Northern Song Dynasty.
For example, the queen of the Ming Dynasty only had some power when she was promoted to the queen mother and the prince was young.
But at this time, the queen can be called a saint. When the emperor goes to war, the queen will directly come to court to control the family. Even if the emperor is there, the queen can also give individual orders to the ministers, called edicts.
During the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong Li Cunxu, Empress Liu was extremely powerful, and the orders she issued were once more effective than those of Li Cunxu.
Although this would not be the case with Zhang Yan, Cao Yanxi's power is actually not small.
For example, when Zhang Zhi conquered the Southern Tang Dynasty, major national affairs were discussed by Zhang Xichong, Fan Zhi and others, and had to be reported to Queen Cao Yanxi for approval before they could be implemented.
At that time, Li Jing refused to give in, and Zhang Yan was preparing to recruit another 10,000 troops to go south to Huainan. This was what Cao Yanxi urged the ministers to complete as soon as possible.
However, precisely because the queen's power was quite great, the pressure on Cao Yanxi increased.
While she had to do her duty well, she also had to be wary of the further expansion of the Cao family's power. There were no less than fifty cases of Cao family children coming to her door to ask for an official position that she had blocked.
The clansmen don't understand her. They feel that the Cao family is so rich now and there are many deficiencies in the official positions in the court. How about giving them some official titles? Everyone is complaining that Cao Yanxi has turned his back on others.
Cao Yanxi, on the other hand, knew very well what kind of person Zhang Yan was, so he could only block these annoying things by himself and prevent Zhang Yan from being affected, which was quite tiring.
And watching Cao Yanxi fall asleep with a beautiful smile, Zhang Yan couldn't sleep a little. It was almost the first day of the year, and he had three major things to do next.
The first is to solve the problem of the hollowing out of Liangzhou. If it were during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the richest families from all over the world could have been moved to Liangzhou.
But he can't do it now, because nearly two hundred years of turmoil have passed. Although the intensity cannot be compared with that of the late Qin and Sui Dynasties, it was too frequent and the people's livelihood was quite miserable.
It is not that there are no wealthy private households, but they are not so big that they need to be relocated to control them. They are not the group that Zhang Gao wants.
More importantly, strictly speaking, Liangzhou no longer belonged to the center of the empire after Zhang Yan entered the Central Plains. That's why Zhang Yan elevated Liangzhou to one of the five capitals in order to avoid its rapid decline.
In addition to serving as a major channel for exchanges between the Central Plains and Anxi, Liangzhou was also the core source of force for Zhang Gao and the rear area for his westward conquest.
Therefore, in addition to being relatively wealthy, we also need to add the word "武", which is precisely the goal that cannot be achieved by relocating wealthy households.
After ruling out this method, Zhang Yan could only focus on the Guanzhong people closest to Hexi.
Because before this, when Zhang Yi left Tongguan, he brought 6,000 Guanzhong righteous followers. Before attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty, he recruited another 4,000. At the same time, because of Meng Shu's attack, Cao Yuanzhong also asked Zhang Yi for instructions. About five thousand men were recruited.
The most important thing is that Zhang Yan was based on Tang Taizong Li Shimin as a benchmark in Guanzhong. Many people in Guanzhong also believed that Zhang Yan was the reincarnation of Emperor Taizong Wen. This can be seen from the performance of Guanzhong Yicong on the battlefield.
Therefore, Zhang Zhang's best solution at present is to relocate part of Guanzhong Yi Cong to Liangzhou and divide Liangzhou's fertile land into three parts.
The largest piece was rewarded to Yi Cong and his family members in Guanzhong who had followed him, while the smaller piece was used to recruit some people of various ethnic groups from the Qingtang Plateau and high mountains.
In the last remaining small area, Zhang Yan planned to move about 50,000 people from Guanzhong to Hexi.
As Zhang Gao's most important rear area, Hexi Longyou should still maintain the large-scale army model with four to five hundred acres of land, so that troops can be mobilized to Guanzhong if there is an incident in the Central Plains, and they can quickly provide support if there is an incident in Anxi.
As for Zhang Huaiqing, Zhang Yan is still planning to transfer him back to Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo.
Zhang Shengren is actually not afraid that his subordinates have a strong desire for power, because he has many high-ranking officials and generous salaries to arrange people, but I am afraid that his subordinates have lost their ambition to be enterprising.
Zhang Huaiqing was like this. He had lost all the courage and determination to fight, and there was no benefit in staying in Chengtian Mansion in Xijing.
It's just that Pei Yuan was left alone in Xijing and took over Tianfu Yin. The delegation of power was a bit too big. Pei Yuan can still be trusted now, but what about the future?
The second thing is that Li Shengtian came to the west. According to Cao Liulang Cao Yanlu's report, Li Shengtian had already left in July. In addition to leaving Li Congde to supervise the country, he also took Cao Yuanxin, Li Congyu and others with him.
Zhang Gao didn't expect Li Shengtian to be so obsessed with visiting the Central Plains, and he also felt that Li Shengtian even wanted to live in the Central Plains permanently.
But Anxi must not be without him now. How to lure his uncle, the Emperor, back to Khotan, and then work as a cow and horse guarding the west gate for a few more years, this is a problem.
The last thing is that the all-round political structure has been adjusted. What Zhang Yan is now implementing is a mixture of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties systems.
At the central level, there is a parallel structure of the three provinces of Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia plus the Privy Council.
However, after running for a period of time, Zhang Yan discovered a large number of unclear overlapping powers and buck-passing.
Because in fact, the three-province system existed in name only after the mid-Tang Dynasty.
Many of the powers of the Privy Council, as well as the court structure of the Later Liang and Later Tang Dynasties, overlapped with the three-province system.
The biggest problem is that when the three-province system was originally designed, the emperor was imagined to be a standard like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
But in fact, over the years, how many emperors have been as diligent in political affairs as Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, aware of the sufferings of the people, and able to accept advice humbly?
Especially in the Ministry of Menxia, the emperor would not be able to carry out the series of responsibilities if he was less ambitious.
Therefore, after Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the responsibilities of the three provinces gradually began to be divided among various missions that needed to obey the emperor's orders.
At the same time, the three-province system will also lead to a high concentration of civil power to a certain extent. If you are a wise king, you can still control it, but if you encounter a few people who are not so capable, you will only be fooled around.
Zhang Gao did not have the self-confidence of Tang Taizong. Tang Taizong was very confident that he would train his successors to be as virtuous kings as himself. Zhang Gao estimated that the majority of his descendants would be mediocre.
Of course, he didn't want to use the Tang Dynasty's method of cultivating heirs, so the three provinces system had to be changed according to the times.
Zhang Zhang's idea was to completely transform the Zhongshu Province, which had the closest relationship with the emperor, into the emperor's secretarial team.
The position of Zhongshu Ling was changed to a vacant position to be used for posthumous gifts, and the official title of Tong Zhongshu Pingzhangshi was restored as a title of Prime Minister.
The actual chief of Zhongshu Province is the Minister of Zhongshu, who is in charge of submitting national government affairs, issuing edicts, and submitting memorials from ministers to the emperor for review. They select, distinguish between important and non-important matters, and submit them to the emperor respectively.
Suppose there is a person in charge of Zhongshu Zhizhizhi. As the emperor's most intimate attendant, he is always in charge of book signing, book making, imperial edicts, imperial edicts, imperial edicts and other matters.
There are six people in the middle school, who are responsible for the six departments of household registration, ceremony, military, punishment and engineering, and are responsible for the duties of squad leader, imperial edict making, inspection and other duties. The other departments and courtyards such as Fubao, Tongjin and Jinzou remain unchanged.
However, the official positions of the Zhongshu Province, which were originally used to correct deficiencies in government affairs, improper employment, and illegal officials, etc., will be merged into the Menxia Province.
At this point, Zhongshu Sheng no longer held responsibilities such as supervision and admonishment, and became the emperor's exclusive think tank and secretariat.
Zhang Yan even planned to let Zhongshu Province officials not pass the ordinary imperial examination selection after the imperial examination was completed, but the special selection by the emperor's Enke.
This is actually very similar to the ceremonial supervisor of the Ming Dynasty. The general direction is similar, but there are some specific differences.
After accepting the official positions of left and right Sanqi Changshi, Si Jian, and Zhengyan ceded by the Zhongshu Province, the power of the Menxia Province to refute, supervise, and advise was strengthened.
At the same time, a large number of specific government affairs systems will come to Shangshu Province.
Zhang Gao planned to take Shangshu Zuopushe, who had added Tongzhongshu Pingzhangshi, as the leader, and Shangshu Youpushe as his deputy.
At the same time, some left ministers of the six ministries will be given the title of "participant in political affairs", so that they can participate in state affairs just like prime ministers.
In this way, Zhang Zhou's central power structure will become that the emperor personally appoints Zhongshu Ling, and below is the subordinate ministers, Tongzhongshu Pingzhangshi, Shangshu Zuopushe, Shangshu Youpushe and several counselors and political affairs officers. Group appearance.
Locally, the title Dao Ambassador was actually established by Zhang Zhi in order to suppress the authority of Jiedushi. The full title was actually the original Jiedu Ambassador.
But it doesn't apply at all now, not even the current state and county system.
But Zhang Gao had to wait until Feng Dao and Zhao Ying came back before making arrangements.
(End of chapter)
