Chapter 246 Selection of the Minister of Justice

Li Er opened a memorial, which was a memorial submitted by a minister to him, requesting to be enshrined in the imperial court again.

There were many such memorials, even the influential people in the court, such as Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling, had submitted such memorials.

Li Er also felt that with his current achievements, the peace of the country, and the people living and working in peace, he was indeed suitable for enshrining

in the imperial court. So he approved the memorials of the ministers requesting enshrining in the imperial court.

He also issued an edict to make feather guards and send them to the East Palace, and let the prince personally take charge of the preparations for enshrining in the imperial court. The fact that

Li Er could entrust such an important matter to Li Chengqian was enough to prove his respect for the prince.

"Now that the Minister of Justice is vacant, I have ordered the prime ministers to handle this matter. I don't know if they have a suitable candidate?" Li Er said.

The Ministry of Justice is in charge of punishment. The Ministry of Justice in the Tang Dynasty had the smallest scope of authority, which was basically limited to the power to execute civilians and officials below the seventh rank, but generally did not have the power to punish. The power to punish basically belonged to the Dali Temple, and the supervision of middle and high-level officials was basically under the supervision of the "Menxia Province" among the three provinces.

In layman's terms, the Ministry of Justice has no right to decide what sentence a criminal should be given or how to punish him, but it can punish convicted criminals.

The Ministry of Justice in the Tang and Song dynasties played more of an executive role. It was not

until the Ming and Qing dynasties that the Ministry of Justice, as an institution in charge of national punishment orders and review of criminal names, formed the three-judicial system with the Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Major cases jointly tried by these three departments, this is the origin of the so-called three-judicial joint trial.

The head of the six ministries was the Shangshu, and the second in command was the Shilang. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the deputy ministers of the government departments were second only to the Shangshu, which was equivalent to the deputy minister level in later generations.

"The Shangshu Zuo Pushe Fang Xuanling, the Zhongshu Ling Ma Zhou and others have sent memorials to select suitable candidates for Your Majesty. These are the candidates proposed by several prime ministers. Please take a look."

Wang Yuan said, and then he found the list of candidates for the Shilang of the Ministry of Justice sent by Fang Xuanling and others from the memorials.

Li Er flipped through the list of candidates sent by Fang Xuanling and others, and the more he looked at it, the more dissatisfied he became. In Li Er's opinion, the candidates they recommended were not qualified to be the Shilang of the Ministry of Justice.

After Li Er only looked at the candidates of Fang Xuanling and Ma Zhou, he threw these candidate lists aside. He didn't want to read them at all.

Who are the people recommended to him? None of them suit his taste.

Although the Ministry of Justice is not as high in status as the Dali Temple, it is also one of the six ministries. How can it be so careless?

This is extremely irresponsible. Li Er is very dissatisfied. Fortunately, he now has a suitable candidate in his mind, who is qualified for the position of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice.

"By the way! Does the Eastern Palace have any recommended candidates?" Li Er asked.

This time the position of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice was vacant. Li Er not only asked Fang Xuanling and other prime ministers to recommend suitable talents, but also asked people to go to the Eastern Palace and let Li Chengqian recommend talents.

Li Er just wanted to know whether his son had the ability to judge people.

"The East Palace has sent someone to deliver the candidate recommended by you early in the morning. This is it. Please take a look." Wang Yuan said, flipping through the list sent by the East Palace from the side.

"Hahaha!" Li Er took it and looked at it, his eyes lit up immediately, and then he laughed.

"Everyone! What's wrong with you?" Wang Yuan asked in confusion.

"The prince is worthy of being my son. He looks like me, really like me. Even the person recommended is the same as the candidate in my mind!" Li Er said.

Li Er never thought that Li Chengqian would think the same as him!

Because there were only three words "Li Daoyou" on the list sent by the East Palace.

This Li Daoyou is also the most suitable candidate for the Minister of the Ministry of Justice in Li Er's mind, no one else.

"My dear, you and I are close relatives, so naturally you think about what we think and worry about what we worry about."

"Father and son are of the same mind, so naturally you think about the same thing as us!" Wang Yuan said with a smile. As for whose name was written on the list submitted by the prince, Wang Yuan didn't care. "

You are right. After all, Cheng Qian and I are close relatives, how can outsiders compare? As the saying goes: father and son fight in battle, brothers fight against tigers, that's what it means." Li Er said with a smile.

"Since everyone has made a decision, should we notify the Zhongshu Ling and others immediately?" Wang Yuan asked.

"Go and tell Fang Xuanling and others that the person who will fill the vacancy of the Minister of Justice is Li Daoyu, the Junior Craftsman of the Ministry of Works, and let them draft an imperial edict to appoint Li Daoyu as the Minister of Justice." Li Er said.

The imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty, no matter what format it is, must be signed by the three provinces before it can take effect.

Of course, if the emperor insists on doing it his own way, they dare not fail to sign and seal the imperial edict.

"Li Daoyou?" Wang Yuan was a little surprised!

He remembered Li Daoyou very clearly. At that time, someone accused Zhang Liang of treason, but Zhang Liang refused to admit it.

However, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty strongly demanded that His Majesty Li Er kill Zhang Liang as a model to maintain the fairness of the law.

Among all the ministers, only Li Daoyou, the young craftsman of the general, dared to stand up and refute Li Er on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to convict.

At that time, Li Er was very angry and said that he would deal with this guy who was ignorant of the world and dared to offend the emperor.

Wang Yuan remembered all this clearly, why did everyone change their minds?

"What? Why don't you go quickly? What are you standing there for? Are you dissatisfied with my arrangement?" Li Er saw Wang Yuan standing there in a daze, not following his instructions, and could not help but urge him. "

I dare not have any opinions on you! But I have something to say, but I don't know if it's appropriate or not!" Wang Yuan said.

"You want to talk about the matter of Li Daoyou pleading for Zhang Liang. Why didn't I punish Li Daoyou, but let him be the Minister of Justice?" Li Er said.

"Yes!" Wang Yuan said, only he, Wang Yuan, was Li Er's confidant, otherwise it would be a question for him, a eunuch, to ask.

"When Zhang Liang was convicted of treason, only Li Daoyu stood up and said that there were too many doubts in the case and the evidence was insufficient, so he could not be convicted at will. He was right."

"At that time, I did not listen to him. Now I feel regretful. Therefore, there are not many people who dare to speak out like this!"

"In the court, all the civil and military officials are flattering. Since Wei Zheng's death, no one dares to stand up and tell the truth." "

Li Daoyu is the most suitable person to take the position of the Minister of Justice." Li Er said.

"Yes!" Wang Yuan took the order and left, conveying Li Er's order to the officials of the three provinces.

The Ministry of Justice is the judicial department in charge of punishment. Sometimes it is inevitable that someone will offend someone. At this time, people like Li Daoyu who are upright and incorruptible are needed to uphold justice.

The officials of the three ministries immediately drafted the edict according to the procedures, affixed the imperial seal, and sent someone to convey the edict to Li Daoyu.

After receiving the edict, Li Daoyu immediately took office and went to the Ministry of Justice to take up his post as the Minister of Justice.