After the Great Court Meeting on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Luo Zhixue really got into working mode, and the entire work rhythm returned to normal.
Basically, every day, there is a duty meeting before the emperor, mainly to listen to some important brief reports from the ministers, and then Luo Zhixue gives corresponding instructions based on the specific circumstances of the matter.
The ministers present will not be all the counselors and co-organizing ministers, but often only the counselors and co-organizing ministers who are on duty and take over.
This time is also the day when the ministers on duty make handovers.
The staff ministers and co-organizing ministers who were on duty last night can go home and rest after their morning meeting.
The new ministers on duty and the co-organizing ministers took over the work and started working on duty for the day, which would last until about 8 o'clock in the evening. They handed over to the ministers on duty in the evening shift and then went home to rest.
Therefore, there are not many people participating in the daily morning meeting before the emperor. There are usually two or three ministers on duty and four or six co-organizing ministers.
The total number was probably between six and nine.
After the morning meeting, Luo Zhixue began to process various reports and memorials. These formal reports were mainly submitted by various ministries. After passing through the hands of the responsible minister or co-organizing minister, they were then submitted to Luo Zhixue.
They are all reports involving major affairs inside and outside the empire, such as changes in legal provisions, major engineering projects, foreign military affairs, major administrative adjustments, the appointment and dismissal of some mid-level and senior officials, and other important matters.
These reports are usually drafted by each department and are responsible for specific affairs. The Minister of each ministry or the Zuo Shilang who is actually acting in charge of the department gives approval opinions. After approval, the report will be made in triplicate, and one copy will be sent to the person in charge of the matter. The Minister of Counseling Affairs or the Co-organizing Minister shall review and approve the application.
The second copy was sent to various departments of the Hanlin Academy.
The third copy is sent directly to the archives for records.
The minister in charge or the co-organizer will review and approve the report after receiving it. The minister in charge will give detailed approval opinions, and then the report will be sent to Luo Zhixue... The approval opinions of the minister in charge are sealed.
However, there will be a lot of reports sent to Luo Zhixue. At the same time, many of the reports are a thick pile, often containing dozens or even hundreds of pages.
It is impossible for Luo Zhixue to really read every report from beginning to end. At the same time, it is also impossible for Luo Zhixue to not read anything and directly approve or reject a certain matter according to the approval opinions of the minister in charge. Therefore, he only reads Briefing summary.
Where do these briefing feeds come from? That is the main job of the Hanlin Academy.
The Hanlin Academy is divided into various departments, and each department is specialized in corresponding to a certain department.
There are currently thirty-one first-level agencies in the administrative system, ranging from the second-level departments (including the Grand Inspectorate and the Grand Judge) to the second-level general bureau and general administration.
The military system has twelve departments, namely the Army's four departments and two directors, the Navy's four departments and one headquarters, and the Guards Command.
There are nearly forty first-level institutions in the two major civil and military systems.
Each of these more than 40 first-level institutions will have a corresponding department in the Hanlin Academy.
The corresponding departments will review the second report submitted by each department and extract the key points in the report to form a briefing.
The report and briefing are then sent to the Hanlin Academy Secretariat, where the first or second secretaries, along with the third secretaries, review them.
After review, if it is deemed that there are no problems with the brief, the brief will be sealed.
In the end, the reports of each department, the approval opinions of the ministers in charge, and the briefing from the Hanlin Academy were sent to the imperial court for Luo Zhixue to make the final review.
Luo Zhixue usually only reads the briefing from the Hanlin Academy and the approval opinions of the minister in charge. If there are no problems in both aspects, he will directly approve or reject according to the approval suggestions of the minister in charge.
Only when there is a conflict between the secretariat's briefing and the approval opinions of the minister in charge, or when the matter is more important, Luo Zhixue will personally read the reports that contain dozens or even hundreds of pages.
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Processing reports submitted by various departments is part of Luo Zhixue's daily work, but it is not the one that takes the most time.
In fact, Luo Zhixue spent more time reviewing and approving memorials in the traditional sense.
However, these memorials that require Luo Zhixue's personal approval are different from memorials in the traditional sense. Only officials of a certain level are allowed to submit memorials.
Beijing officials need to be from the fourth rank of actual deputy director or above, while for local civil servants, only those from the fifth rank or above are eligible to be promoted to Mizuo.
And this kind of secret words are not allowed to be used to talk about other messy things. For example, officials used secret words to greet guests. This happened in the early years, but after being severely punished by Luo Zhixue, it was clearly stipulated that the use of secret words was not allowed. After doing all this mess, it basically never happened again.
At the same time, it is also required that what is said be meaningful and no nonsense is allowed. If you are going to impeach with a secret code, then the officials are required to be responsible for the impeachment itself.
The secret discount system is to give officials, mainly local officials, a direct channel to Tianting, and it is also to strengthen local control.
Under special circumstances, Luo Zhixue did not need to issue orders to the provinces through the Council of Ministers or even the ministries. Instead, he could directly issue orders to local officials through secret decrees.
The staff management system, the Hanlin Academy briefing system, tax independence, the local secret system, the complete separation of civil and military affairs, the huge conflicts between land and sea, the Guards becoming its own army, etc.
These various systems can actually be simply understood as Luo Zhixue's continuous efforts and attempts to strengthen the imperial power.
After this series of systems, the imperial power of the Chu Empire was highly centralized. It could not be compared with any traditional feudal dynasty. Compared with the imperial power of the Great Chu Empire, the imperial power of the pre-Ming Dynasty was not even worthy of holding a shoe.
As long as Luo Zhixue is willing, he can bypass the Senate and take over the entire Gyeonggi organization directly through the Hanlin Academy.
As long as Luo Zhixue is willing, he can bypass the entire Gyeonggi bureaucracy and issue orders directly to local officials.
Luo Zhixue was able to do this largely not because of his great talent or ability, but purely because he was the founding emperor and had unprecedented prestige and intimidation.
In addition, because he was the founding emperor, all the political structures of the Chu Empire were designed by him with reference to many systems of later generations, without any interference in between.
Just like painting on a piece of white paper, Luo Zhi can paint however he likes without any interference or opposition from old interest groups.
When vested interest groups were formed, the political structure of the Chu Empire was already very mature.
These interest groups have actually become the defenders of this political system.
For example, officials in the capital were actually very unhappy with the local secret system, because in this way, local officials would bypass various ministries and even counselors and report directly to the emperor.
But the Beijing officials were unhappy, but the local officials welcomed it with raised hands and tried their best to maintain it, because with the local secret system, their opinions could be heard directly by heaven without worrying about being blocked by various ministries or even ministers in charge.
The independent tax system... If anyone dares to propose that tax affairs be re-incorporated into various ministries and establish a traditional household department or the like, the officials from the tax department will thoroughly investigate the official's tax issues the next day.
Today, not many officials dare to say that they have no tax problems, even if they don't, but what about their family members?
If other officials dare to propose the abolition of the Hanlin Academy's briefing system, do you really think that the bachelor's degree in charge of the Hanlin Academy is just a job? It is a very important political force, and the well-known secretarial department is only part of it.
In addition to the secretarial department, there are more than forty departments in the Hanlin Academy. Usually, those who are selected into the Hanlin Academy are mainly young or middle-aged officials with relatively bright futures.
These people came and went, the total number was quite large, and many of them later held high positions, thus forming small factions.
Not to mention the final participation system. If anyone dares to have an opinion on the participation system, then
That is to oppose the nine most powerful ministers and more than 20 co-organizing ministers in the empire.
All these factors mean that there are already a large number of vested interest groups in the current political structure.
And these people will spontaneously maintain the operation of this political system.
Even though this political system is the most centralized system of imperial power since ancient times.
But they will still insist on persisting because they have their own interests here.
This is why many dynasties in history have had great difficulties in carrying out reforms and have attracted a lot of backlash.
This has nothing to do with whether the reform plan is good or not, but because any reform will harm the interests of some vested interest groups, and these people will oppose it.
The current Chu Empire is actually similar. Relying on Luo Zhixue's prestige and deterrence, it is possible to carry out some tinkering reforms and adjustments, but it is very difficult to make big moves, or even to peak the existing political structure.
After Luo Zhixue's death, if the Chu Empire wants to carry out reforms and make changes to its core structure in the future, it will be almost impossible.
Not even if the emperor supports it!
After all, the empire is not the empire of an emperor, but also of many ministers and other interest groups.
Of course, the current political structure of the Chu Empire is still running quite stable. At least Luo Zhixue is very satisfied with this. It allows him to control real power without being too busy and exhausting himself to death.
After the imperial morning meeting every day to review and approve reports and secret documents, the next step is to meet with some ministers or hold some small meetings.
The working hours for the previous day were almost over in a few days. In the evening, Luo Zhixue returned to the harem after get off work.
However, he does not live in the emperor's exclusive palace three kilometers behind the inner court, that is, the Qianqing Palace. Instead, he lives in Dongyuan to the east of the Qianqing Palace.
Because many of the palaces in the Chu Empire were built strictly in accordance with traditional architectural styles. This kind of palace looks majestic, but in fact Luo Zhixue doesn't really like it if he actually lives in it.
After all, he is a modern man with a modern aesthetic style!
Therefore, after the main buildings of the palace were built in Chengshun for more than ten years, Luo Zhixue took a look and finally decided to build a new palace in the eastern area of the palace for his daily living.
This is where Dongyuan comes from.
The design of Dongyuan is mainly based on the traditional garden architectural style, and incorporates part of the modern architectural style proposed by Luo Zhixue. The most important feature is that it pays great attention to lighting and some details. The interior decoration looks softer, rather than the solemnity of a traditional palace. and thick.
In terms of building materials, marble, glass, reinforced concrete are mainly used in large quantities.
Since the completion of Dongyuan in the 22nd year of Chengshun, Luo Zhixue has lived in Dongyuan every day.
As for the Qianqing Palace, it is basically vacant, and people only go there during some special times or ceremonial occasions.
Not only did Luo Zhixue live in a new-style garden palace like Dongyuan, but in fact many concubines also lived in some new-style palaces.
When Luo Zhixue built Dongyuan, he also built many new-style palaces behind Dongyuan.
Therefore, the current imperial palace of the Dachu Empire is actually a combination of tradition and modernity.
It has six front and rear halls built strictly in accordance with traditional architectural regulations, and forms the core of the Imperial Palace of the Great Chu Empire!
However, many of the buildings surrounding the six main halls are actually buildings of different styles, including typical Jiangnan garden-style buildings. For example, "An Yuan" where Queen Wang lives and lives on weekdays is a very traditional Jiangnan garden!
Then Anping Palace, where Concubine Xu lives, is actually a Baroque-style building.
In Dongyuan, Luo Zhixue also has several modern-style buildings with design styles provided by Luo Zhixue himself and perfected by architects. There is even a purely modern-style villa, which uses a large number of large area
of glass...
With Luo Zhixue's intervention, the architectural styles of the imperial palaces of the Chu Empire were actually diverse, and basically everything could be seen.
At the same time, it covers a very large area. The scope of the harem extends from the front hall to Xuanwu Lake and several connected small lakes in the north.
However, although it covers a large area, the density of buildings is not high, and many places are actually large expanses of grass.
On the one hand, this is because Luo Zhixue likes to have a wide field of vision, and on the other hand, it is also for better defense!
Especially in the outer area of the palace, there is a large area of grassland outside the moat, and there is a simple palace wall surrounding the grassland.
If an outsider wants to break into the palace, he must first climb over the thin outer palace wall, and then cross the empty grassland with a depth of hundreds of meters... This grassland looks flat, but in fact there are many things in the middle. The trenches and tunnels are built to look like hills, but they are actually fortresses at the firepower point... and there are tunnels connecting them to each other.
Only after crossing this area called grassland, which is actually a trench defense line, can you reach the moat!
Behind the moat is the real palace wall. This palace wall is extremely thick. Horse racing and even heavy artillery can be deployed on the top of the palace wall. At the same time, the top of the palace is not empty, but has a trench defense system similar to a trench.
The palace wall is not a pure right-angled line, but has numerous protruding bunkers... The artillery and rifle firepower deployed on it can form crossfire in the front. .
The imperial palace of the Dachu Empire was actually a large-scale military fortress.
At the same time, there are warehouses in the palace that store a large amount of food and ammunition. Artillery is deployed at each fortress firepower point all year round and maintained regularly.
In normal times, the Guards Regiment is responsible for garrisoning, and there will be a Guards Division on the periphery for reinforcement at any time.
Once encountering enemy or rebel attacks, the Guards Division can provide emergency reinforcements, increasing the number of troops guarding the palace to more than 20,000 in a short period of time.
It's just that such a thick palace fortress is probably of no practical use, at least within a few decades.
After all, it is still Luo Zhixue's era. The empire is in a period of rapid development, and there is not much risk of internal rebellion.
There are many careerists, but some people must be willing to follow the careerists in rebellion!
The people in the country live and work in peace and contentment, and the possibility of civil rebellion has been reduced to a minimum.
The various political structures in the court were relatively balanced and there were many factions. Even if the Minister of Counselor wanted to start a rebellion, he would not be able to gain the support of many people.
There is a high probability that the other ministers will take care of him before he even raises his troops.
Are you saying that a certain minister of counselors dominates the family and turns other ministers of counselors into subordinates?
The ministers are full of contradictions with each other... This has nothing to do with personal opinions, but that every minister represents the interests of the entire system.
There are often conflicts between many systems, making it difficult to reconcile interests.
In addition, the most important thing is that the Minister of Counselor can only send orders, and this mission is still verbal... When appointing the Minister of Counselor, Luo Zhixue never uses a formal imperial edict, but issues a formal edict... and sometimes even the edict document None, just an oral message.
The Minister of Counselor has no rank and no fixed office location (the imperial study room is Luo Zhixue’s office, not the Minister of Counselor’s office)…
This means that the decision to leave or leave the Counselor is entirely based on the emperor's words and does not require any formal procedures.
The emperor saw that he was unhappy and could just kick him away. Why should he allow him to continue to grow?
If you can still be ignored by your ministers...
What else can I say... I can only say that this emperor deserves it!
It is precisely because of a complete set of political structures that Luo Zhixue can rest assured that he can watch operas and listen to music every three days in Dongyuan, and guide the work of the Royal Music and Dance Troupe when he is interested.
You can also go to surrounding areas from time to time to inspect and see the actual local development.
With the arrival of Chengshun Twenty-Nine, Luo Zhi Preschool
Plans to conduct inspections in various provinces have also been launched in an orderly manner.
This time the inspection is not just going to a few nearby cities, the furthest is Shanghai, as usual, but we are going to go all the way north along the railway network. We will not only inspect several provinces north of the Yangtze River, but also all the way to Head north to Hebei or even Liaodong.
Luo Zhixue was planning to make a northern tour to see the actual situation in the northern provinces of the empire under his rule.
