Ginger is still spicy.

Qin Gui was as clear as a mirror about the current situation in the Tang Dynasty.

"Dalang said it very well just now. What is an eunuch? It's just a dog of the emperor, but this dog is raised by the emperor. It depends on the owner to beat the dog. You can't kill the dog because it's very fierce."

The pattern formed by the Tang Dynasty after the Six Emperors has four pillars.

The largest group of military meritorious officials who have continued since the founding of the country is the Wagang Group. Then the second largest force is the group of scholars and civil servants who were taken from the imperial examination. After decades of imperial examinations, the class power of this group of scholars and civil servants is also very strong, covering the court inside and outside.

The third pillar is the foreign relatives group.

This group is usually referring to the Qin family now. In the early years, Yang, Wei, Xiao, Zheng and other families were also very powerful, especially the Hongnong Yang family and the Jingzhao Wei family and the Emperor and Tang Li family married from generation to generation to form a close in-law relationship. There were also Changsun and Gao family, which were also very strong, but in the end they could not compete with the Qin family.

The Qin family, the leader of the military merit group, has withstood past power struggles and supported several dynasties, establishing their unparalleled special status. Since the founding of Emperor Shizu, Emperor Gaozong Zhongzong and Emperor Tianbao, four empresses have been all the daughters of the Qin family.

Even the young prince Li Ling, who has not yet won the crown, has already appointed a secretary and the young supervisor Qin Xiaogong's granddaughter as the criminal princess.

The fourth pillar is the eunuch group.

Among these four pillars, the eunuchs have very special power. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu, they had no influence in the political situation of the Tang Dynasty, and even had a grade of only a fourth rank.

However, when the Emperor Shizu Li Yin was reigned, especially after cleaning up the veterans of Changsun Wuji and Guanlong Group, Li Yin began to reliably use eunuchs and systematically establish an internal dynasty system with these domestic slaves to establish a new balance of power, especially through eunuchs' intervention in the army to reduce the power of the military merit group.

Although there were brief recurrences afterwards, the power of eunuchs was further enhanced during the period when the Queen of Heaven and Zhongzong ruled, because the Queen of Heaven and Zhongzong both needed to use eunuchs to balance other major forces and consolidate the imperial power.

After all, eunuchs are actually just extensions of imperial power.

It was the helper the emperor asked for.

In the Ming Dynasty, the prime ministers of the East and West governments, as well as the prime ministers, internal ministers, and censors, were of course also ministers of the emperor. However, the officials of the outer court headed by the prime ministers of the two governments did not completely obey the emperor, especially after the Emperor Shizu, although the prime ministers decentralized power, the prime ministers they jointly exercised still faintly suppressed the imperial power.

The priest ruled on behalf of the emperor.

The emperor wanted to control the government, weaken the priest, and control the army. It was best to use the most trustworthy eunuchs who lived the emperor's family slaves.

Therefore, the eunuch's power has increased unprecedentedly, involving all aspects.

The fundamental reason why the emperor trusts eunuchs is that eunuchs have no life roots and have no sons. They must rely on imperial power and have no will.

Although there are eunuch families in the palace, this kind of family cannot transcend the eunuch system, nor can it transcend the control of imperial power.

The Xuanhui Academy regained the power to criticize the emperor's army, and the lieutenants of the guards became the emperor's most trusted military supervisors.

In addition to assisting the emperor in handling government affairs, Xuanhuiyuan's greatest responsibility or function is actually uploading and downloading, especially the uploading function.

The central government of the court handled state affairs by relying on the main method of memorial work.

The affairs of local prefectures, counties and departments in the central government require two copies of one official and one decouple. The copies are sent directly to Xuanhuiyuan. The fundamental purpose of this is to allow the emperor to pass through the eunuchs of Xuanhuiyuan to ensure the smooth flow of information channels.

Although the emperor's words as an imperial edict were a concept recognized by the public, in fact, in the Tang Dynasty, the emperor's imperial edicts must be compiled by the Secretariat or the Hanlin Academy, and then passed by the Secretariat to be an imperial edict.

Without the imperial edict issued by the Secretariat, it was regarded as an imperial edict by the government and the people.

Even if the Hanlin Academy is in charge of drafting internal orders, the internal orders they drafted are strictly limited, and they even have to use seals and signatures in the end.

The two governments agreed on a military and national event and received an order in person.

The Secretary of the Central Committee made his orders and the disciples audited. If there were those who were not in charge, the Secretary of the Central Committee would be entrusted and rejected. If there were those who were in charge, the Secretary of the Communist Party would be entrusted and rejected. The Secretary of the Communist Party would be entrusted and rejected. The Secretary of the State Council would be entrusted and recommended.

These are talking about decision-making.

But information is the basis of decision-making, and the process of decision-making is the collection and analysis process of information.

The emperor lives in the deep palace and wants to make the right decision, he must first ensure that he has sufficient and comprehensive knowledge of information, otherwise the difference will be greatly reduced.

The emperor set up Xuanhui Academy not because he was lazy and did not want to review memorials, but gave it to the eunuchs to handle it on his behalf. The most important responsibility of Xuanhui Academy is actually to collect information and make sure that the emperor will not block the news and block the eyes and ears.

After all copies of the memorials are sent to Xuanhui Courtyard, a professional eunuch team of Xuanhui Courtyard will handle these memorials.

Register in the file, and then sort out the classification.

All memorials are classified according to the content of the memorial, and even priorities are divided. Finally, these are sorted out and reported to the Xuanhui Envoy, who will report the important ones to the Emperor.

In this way, it not only filters out some small and erotic matters, avoids wasting energy, but also prioritizes important matters.

Of course, the six departments, nine temples, three provinces, and two government offices of the court themselves were also filtering, sorting and disposing of the institutions that would sort out and process various information, various notes and notes of officials’ memorials, and memorials.

Finally, they gathered in the Political Affairs Hall, and the prime ministers discussed and came up with a preliminary solution, which was usually to post a yellow ticket and then report it to the emperor.

The functions of Xuanhuiyuan and Zhengshitang seem to overlap, but in fact this is the most important step to ensure the emperor's power.

If this step is not done, even though the emperor is the lord of the world, the information he can see and hear has been filtered or even deleted and edited by the prime ministers. This is very dangerous for the emperor.

Through the eunuch team of Xuanhui Academy, the emperor established his own information processing organization to ensure the comprehensiveness and authenticity of the information. Even senior eunuchs such as Xuanhui envoy provided disposal suggestions as decision-making consultants. When the two governments reported on the corresponding affairs, the emperor was actually prepared and responded more calmly, and would not even be concealed by the time of the time.

The Xuanhuiyuan’s right to criticize the dividend is actually not as important as the previous one.

The lieutenant of the Northern Yawei Army and the military supervisor of the Border Town Jiedu were all direct manifestations of the emperor's attempt to strengthen the control of the military power of the army.

After all, the Tang emperors after Li Shimin were far inferior in terms of knowledge, ability, or even prestige. They had to ensure power through such team operations.

Qin Gui had already seen through the logic here.

Knowing the root of the eunuchs' power, he would not shout like Qin Lun to kill the eggless eunuchs.

You can defeat a certain eunuch who acts arrogantly and illegally, but you can't go to all eunuchs, because these people were made by the emperor or even by a certain emperor, but the Tang Dynasty's royal family is the lackeys needed by the entire imperial power.

Whoever dares to attack the entire eunuch system is going to be the emperor and the entire Tang Dynasty Li family.

This is a very stupid behavior. Although the Qin family was both the largest relative of the foreign affairs in the court and the leader of the military merit group, they could not do such things.

By now, the intersection of the emperor, royal family, court, civil and military, eunuchs, and relatives of the foreign powers has long been very complicated. Now, with the support of the four major branches, the court has reached a new balance.

The emperor at least felt a sense of security, but now that the eunuch group is moved, the emperor may feel that the imperial power is under a huge threat.

"Although the eunuchs are a bit arrogant, they are not too crazy. Can they still be above the imperial power? The two prefectures in the court, even the military merit groups and the bureaucratic scholars, are they so good at overtaking? It is not necessary for our Qin family to be this pioneer."

"There are some who are too arrogant. We can just kill ourselves, but don't think about attacking all the eunuchs."

Qin Lun opened his mouth wide in surprise.

At the age of fifty, he had a smooth life. He was a student of Chongxian Pavilion, a Jinshi, an essay secretary of the secretariat, a high-ranking official of political affairs, a magistrate of Chang'an County, a supervisor of the censor, a censor of the palace, a prince's chief of the prince's general affairs, a Zhongshu General, a Zhongshu General Affairs, a Zhongshu General Affairs, a governor of Shaanxi, Sima of the Anxi Jiedushi, an Anxi Road Observation Envoy, a Minister of War, a Secretary of the Ministry of War, a third rank of the Secretariat, and a Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council, a Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council, a deputy envoy of the Political Affairs...

The career is going smoothly and every step is just right.

Because they went too far, some opinions on some things were indeed inferior to Qin Gui and Qin Xiaozhong. They had both guarded the Western Regions for a long time, and they were indeed different from Qin Lun who had not served in each position for a long time.

"Then let it go?" Qin Lun said for a long time.

Qin Gui smiled and didn't answer.

"Uncle Twenty-one, think about why the eunuchs in the Emperor's Dynasty and the Emperor's Dynasty did not gain power and were dictatorial? Why did the Emperor Shizu value eunuchs back then?"

To put it bluntly, it is because the military merit group is too strong, and it is because the minister's power is too strong.

Even though the power of the prime minister was divided several times, the two palaces of the East and West were still the outside kings. After they joined forces, the emperor still couldn't control it.

That is why the emperor needs eunuchs to take power, and it is necessary to use eunuchs to establish a huge and comprehensive internal dynasty system, or even a military supervision system. This is all for balancing power and strengthening imperial power.

After understanding this starting point and looking at the current situation, it will be very clear.

"Or, think about the Later Han Dynasty in history."

Qin Lun was not satisfied with this reply, "The dictatorship of eunuchs in the Later Han Dynasty and even abolished the emperor. Is the demise of the Later Han Dynasty not caused by the dictatorship of eunuchs? Is it still the Tang Dynasty that we still have to follow this path?"

"The demise of the Later Han Dynasty was not entirely caused by eunuchs' interference in politics. In other words, if there were no important eunuchs in the Later Han Dynasty to strengthen the imperial power, the Later Han might have perished earlier. Of course, although the Later Han Dynasty valued eunuchs and used eunuchs to strengthen the imperial power, the demise of the Later Han Dynasty was also a major cause of the demise of the eunuchs."

Qin Lun was silent.

Today, the Tang Dynasty is really on the old road to the Han Dynasty. Eunuchs are dictatorial, foreign relatives interfere in politics, and then the gentry and powerful people are rising together.

"Actually, there is no need to worry too much, everything has two sides."

Eunuchs can not only strengthen the imperial power, but also endanger the imperial power. Just like the powerful relatives of the Qin family, who made several decisions to support the Tang Dynasty, they also potentially threatened the imperial power. For example, the imperial court implemented the feudal system for decades, which not only alleviated the direct threat from the royal family and the heroes to the court, but these vassal princes on the frontier are gradually becoming new hidden dangers.

The Thirteenth Jiedu border town guarded the border for the Tang Dynasty, but it also had the danger of strong branches and weak trunks.

How to maintain a balance of power is important.

As long as one force does not break the balance and does not cross the boundaries, it will be peaceful.

Eunuchs’ autocracy?

Qin Gui smiled with a teacup in his hand. It was too early to say that the eunuchs in the Tang Dynasty were dictatorial. They were just a group of guards and gatekeepers raised by the Tang Dynasty royal family. Even the evil dogs were not counted. Although these eunuchs sent military commanders in the Thirteenth Jiedu border towns and the troops of the Northern Yamen also sent lieutenants to protect the army, they still had no influence on military power, let alone control.

It is just a supervisory existence for the time being.

As long as the eunuch cannot directly influence military power for a day, the eunuch will always be a group of vicious watchdogs outside but not threatening.

Similarly, although the eunuchs in Xuanhui Academy had the right to criticize the redemption, the right to criticize the redemption was different from the right to make military and national decisions by the Secretariat and the Privy Council. They were just the right to approve the emperor.

The decision-making decisions between civil and military officials is still the ruler of the two governments.

From a certain perspective, foreign relatives and eunuchs are two major forces trusted and relied on by the emperor, and even have the taste of natural allies.

Of course, with the current status of the Qin family, there is no need to get involved with the eunuchs, but there is no need to shout at the eunuchs.

Let others stare at it.

Some eunuchs did too much and could mercilessly find it out and kill it, but they could not take action against the entire eunuch group.

Qin Lun felt very frustrated.

"Today's festive day, let's talk about other things. Talking about those eggless guys is really disgusting." Qin Gui said with a smile.
To be continued...