"Because of this, I will not agree to my love for you to retire in old age!"
Hu Hai looked at the excited Feng Quji and said calmly, then he seemed to have remembered something and added: "I am very relieved to leave the Cabinet Office to you dear friends..."
When Feng Quji heard Hu Hai's words, the smile on his face froze involuntarily.
Does the underlying meaning of the emperor's words mean that if it weren't for the fact that the Cabinet Office has been doing relatively well in the past five years, then he would have agreed to retire? Or would he have directly abolished the Cabinet Office just like the Prime Minister's Office was originally abolished?
“How are the cabinet ministers in the Cabinet Office doing today?”
Hu Hai changed the topic, put down the memorial in his hand and looked at Feng Quji and asked.
Cabinet participation in politics is a new term put forward by Hu Hai in the sixth year of his reign.
Participating in politics, as the name suggests, means participating in political affairs.
In the entire year since Wei Liao's death, Emperor Hu Hai of the Qin Dynasty had no intention of adding a new auxiliary minister to the Cabinet Office. Gradually, people like Wei Liao, who had always had great illusions about the auxiliary minister of the Cabinet Office,
, Hu Wujing and others also gradually gave up their extravagant hopes.
But just when everyone thought that from now on, there would only be four auxiliary ministers in the Cabinet Office, Emperor Hu Hai of the Qin Dynasty suddenly issued an order to select 120 distinguished family members during the Lantern Festival in the sixth year of the Second Emperor's reign.
The cabinet, involved in handling court affairs.
When the news came out, everyone in the court was shocked.
Does the emperor want to turn the ministers of the Cabinet Office into cabbage on the street? If he doesn't move, will he completely turn the Cabinet Office into a puppet in name only?
There are one hundred and twenty auxiliary ministers in the Cabinet Office. Even if it is a trivial matter, the Cabinet Office will argue for days or even dozens of days.
However, the panic of the ministers did not last long, and the specific regulations were announced on the second day of the Lantern Festival.
These one hundred and twenty people must all come from noble families. From this point of view, it basically blocks the access of many wealthy families with insufficient status to enter the cabinet. However, this move allowed Yigancai to take back all their fiefdoms.
The noble family was filled with gratitude to Hu Hai.
However, the positions that these 120 people entered into the cabinet were not cabinet assistant ministers, but a new position, cabinet participation in politics.
The Cabinet Participant does not work in the Cabinet or participate in various official affairs of the Cabinet Office. At the same time, it has no official rank. The only role or authority of the Cabinet Participant is when the Cabinet Participant has doubts about a certain government meeting of the Cabinet Office or thinks that the Cabinet Office
If a certain political proposal is not conducive to the people or the country, then the impeachment process can be initiated.
Of course, the basic requirement for initiating the impeachment process is that more than half of the cabinet ministers must jointly submit a letter to His Majesty the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty. At this time, the Cabinet Office will convene a cabinet meeting, and the four auxiliary ministers of the Cabinet Office must submit a petition to the cabinet ministers.
The questions raised will be answered on the spot at the political participation conference. The Emperor of Qin will and must attend this cabinet political participation conference in person.
After the four auxiliary ministers of the Cabinet Office have completed their answers, if the cabinet participants still have doubts or differences, then the 120 political participants in the Cabinet Office will vote on this policy proposal in three days.
At this time, if the Cabinet Office wants to continue this political discussion, it must win the support of more than two-thirds of the cabinet participants within three days, which means that there must be at least more than 80 cabinet participants.
If you agree to the Cabinet Office's government proposal, then the government proposal will be passed and can be implemented in six parts.
Of course, the Emperor of Qin could overturn any vote made by the cabinet participating in politics. Moreover, all the edicts issued by the Emperor of Qin were also not subject to any restrictions.
Of course, the role of cabinet participation in politics is not limited to this. In addition to being able to impeach and apply for re-examination of political proposals implemented by the Cabinet Office, you can also propose a certain political proposal on your own and hold a cabinet meeting to vote to decide whether the proposal is
Can be executed.
The basis for this proposal is also half of the cabinet participation. As long as more than four-fifths of the cabinet votes pass it, the proposal proposed by the cabinet can be drafted directly without going through several cabinet ministers in the Cabinet Office.
Six executions.
Unless the Emperor of Qin personally intervenes and vetoes it.
In fact, what Hu Hai used at this time was a system that was somewhat similar to the political participation system of later generations. However, today's Da Qin cabinet participation system is somewhat different.
Hu Hai knows that everything must be done step by step and cannot be rushed.
Letting the Cabinet Office take charge of all government affairs in the Qin Dynasty is the first step; setting up restrictions on the Cabinet's participation in politics and decentralizing the power of the Cabinet Office is the second step; the third step is naturally to let the emerging classes in the next few decades, such as businessmen or people's wisdom, gain
Ordinary people who are enabled can also enter the cabinet and participate in political affairs. Hu Hai has already thought of the name, which is called political affairs.
The ultimate goal is that the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty will only command all the armies of the Qin Dynasty and will no longer be excessively involved in political affairs. Instead, all political affairs will be handed over to the Cabinet Office, which will participate in the government and discuss the government.
However, it is obvious that it will take at least several decades for Da Qin to achieve this goal. Only then can such a routine be gradually formed.
On the 120th day of the noble families' participation in politics, Hu Hai wanted to tie all the influential noble families in Great Qin to the chariot of Great Qin. Only by making them regard Great Qin as their roots and making them feel that Great Qin is the same as his own
Only when the rise and fall of their family is related, they will truly consider the empire. Of course, they will definitely also consider seeking benefits for their own family. However, this benefit is based on the fact that Da Qin still exists, and they are still the basis for Da Qin's political participation.
on.
Once the Qin Dynasty falls, any interests of these people will not be protected, and everything their family owns will become a mirror. Therefore, whenever they seek benefits for their family, they must first ensure that
The most important thing is that Da Qin still exists well, and is even healthy and prosperous.
In this way, their family can be continued and their family can remain prosperous.
Hu Hai wants to instill in them the idea that everything they have now is bound to a powerful chariot like the Great Qin Empire. Only with Great Qin can they maintain everything they have now, whether it is power or power.
Wealth and honor; but once they break away from Da Qin, everything they have will cease to exist.
A cabinet of one hundred and twenty people participating in politics is really a drop in the bucket compared to the numerous noble families in the entire Da Qin. So once the news came out, all the noble families went crazy, especially those who no longer had much in the court.
The influential noble family has made up its mind to get a cabinet position to participate in politics no matter what.
Soon, the selection criteria for cabinet participation in politics were announced.
It is said that the selection conditions were drawn up by His Majesty the Emperor himself and were finally revised by the Supervision Department of Zongzheng Mansion. The government office that selects cabinet participants is under the supervision of the Supervision Department of Zongzheng Mansion.
Neither the Cabinet Office nor any other government office in the imperial court could get involved.
The first condition for selecting a cabinet to participate in politics is that they must have made military and political achievements for the Qin Dynasty; the second condition is that in the past ten years, there has been no oppression of good people or illegal things; the third point is that they must have done good deeds
It is a matter of good deeds. And at this point, the noble family that donated heavily to the flood that occurred in the second year of the second year naturally occupies a very high score.
Of course, there must be more than just these three points, but these three points have broken the minds of almost half of the distinguished family.
At this time, a group of noble families discovered that His Majesty the Second Emperor had been preparing for today's events many years ago. Otherwise, why would Chen County be rebuilt? When Shangdang was flooded, he called on Xianyang and even Guanzhong.
Many noble families spent real money to save those lowly people?
The noble families who have done good deeds and donated money will be overjoyed; the noble families who have been blinded by temporary benefits will feel overwhelmed.
One hundred and twenty cabinet ministers were quickly selected. Among them, five cabinet ministers were appointed by Emperor Hu Hai of the Qin Dynasty. These five people were originally promoted by Hu Hai and were awarded the title for their merits in Qin.
There are five marquises: Ma Xing, Marquis of Wu'an, Zhao Ping, Marquis of Dongling, Du He, Marquis of Nanyang, Cui Ruyi, Marquis of Donglai, and Jiang Shumao, Marquis of Baling.
The emperor's grace is so great, it's nothing more than this.
The Holy Emperor Hu Hai had long said that he would not treat anyone who had done meritorious service to the Qin Dynasty, but at this moment, his treatment of Ma Xing, Zhao Ping, Du He and others frankly proved this point.
This move naturally made Ma Xing, Zhao Ping and others who had done a good job in Qin shed tears of gratitude.
The examination for cabinet participation is held every three years. In other words, becoming a cabinet participant does not mean that you will be a cabinet participant for the rest of your life, but that you will only be a cabinet participant within the three years after you are selected.
If you cannot pass the examinations of Zongzheng Mansion Supervision Department, Yushi Mansion, and Heibingtai after five years, then I'm sorry, you have to get out, please wait another five years.
The re-examination after this five-year period is extremely strict for those who were originally involved in cabinet politics. During the three-year term of cabinet participation, what did each participant do? Did they put forward any suggestions that were beneficial to the Qin Dynasty and the people's livelihood?
There is no such thing as indolence, etc., which are all within the scope of the examination. In this regard, the main function of Heibingtai is to collect statistics on the reputation of these cabinets' participation in politics among the people.
Those who are inferior will naturally be superior. What's more, there are so many noble families in Da Qin, but they are all working hard to wait for someone to be inferior.
Starting from the sixth year of the Second World War, it has been exactly three years since the first 120 cabinet members participated in politics until this year. After the National Day on October 25, these 120 cabinet members have participated in politics.
The first exam is about to take place.
"Back to Your Majesty, in the past three years that you have participated in politics, you have really helped the Cabinet Office discover many mistakes and omissions, and proposed some political proposals that are beneficial to people's livelihood. Now it seems that everything is fine. Everything is fine!"
When Feng Quji heard Hu Hai's words, his eyes flashed and he bowed in response. (To be continued.