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De Renjie, a famous official, was just a third-rate official, revealing the official rank of the Tang Dynasty.

As we all know, Di in the Tang Dynasty was a famous expert in solving crimes! We also know that he was the right-hand man in the period of Wu Zetian, and he was the official to the prime minister, but we are not very clear about his rank! In fact, he was also the director of Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province, the highest state management institution in the Tang Dynasty. "Literature and History" (Prime Minister, Zaifu) and Fengge's chaos and flat chapter affairs, let's first look at the governance system of the Tang Dynasty:

The structure of three provinces and six departments was adopted in the Tang Dynasty.

Three provinces: Zhongshu Province (Fengge), Menxia Province (Luantai) and Shangshu Province.

Six departments: official department, household department, ritual department, military department, criminal department and industrial department.

The functions of various institutions are mainly:

Zhongshu province is responsible for helping the emperor draw up the imperial edict, and the secretariat has two officials;

The province under the door is responsible for the review of the blockade. , equipped with two officers and assistants.

The responsibility of Shangshu Province is mainly to implement the decrees drawn up by Zhongshu Province and Menxia Province and submitted to the emperor for examination and approval. The number of ministers is 1, and the number of left and right servants is 1.

There are six departments in Shangshu Province, namely, officials, households, punishments, soldiers, rituals and workers. The length of the six departments is Shangshu, and the responsibilities of the six departments are more professional and subdivided. They manage the affairs of their respective departments, and each department has four departments to assist the work of the ministries.

So Di Renjie is the main official of Zhongshu Province and Xiamen Province. Needless to say, he is the prime minister, with more than one prime minister, but Zaifu is a position to assist the emperor in handling important affairs. Can be said to be the core of the core, why does Di Renjie have a respectful name called Di Ge Lao? Because at that time, his position in North Korea was not only comparable to that of giving away things in Chinese books, but he could naturally become an old man. In fact, it is a kind of honorific title for cabinet college students! Like Zhang Jianzhi later, he was also called Zhang Gelao!

Speaking of De as an official name, let's talk about De's official products. Although De is an official to Zaifu, its grade is only three products, and what we are familiar with is the calibration general Qian Niuwei, which is three products! So Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang are on the same level.

Some people will wonder why the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, who is below one person and above ten thousand people, is a third-rate official. That should start from the historical and political reasons of the Tang Dynasty. The first-class and second-class official positions in the Tang Dynasty are more titles and honors, but they are nominal and have no actual rights.

The official positions in the Tang Dynasty are divided into nine categories, one of which includes three subjects and three publics.

Including Taishi, Taifu, Taibao, Taiwei, Sikong and Situ.

From the first grade, there are mainly three divisions, three little princes, Prince Taishi, Prince Taifu and Prince Taibao. At that time, it was estimated that the three little princes could only be in Grade Two, but not Grade Two!

There are also some lords, princes, county kings, Lord protector, princess, etc. And some hereditary yin formulas such as Zhuguo, Zhuguo and Kaifu Yitong. , may seal a product two products, but generally just empty title, no real power!

In addition to the above-mentioned knighthood and knighthood, the actual incumbents are the positions that actually hold real power, such as Zhongshuling, Shizhong, Shangshuling and Shangshu. In the Wu and Zhou dynasties, these positions were generally positive or subordinate, and the level was not too high anyway. Why is there no real official position in Zheng Erpin's class? This is about Li Shimin's experience of Emperor Taizong. He came directly from the official position at that time. Of course, the emperors behind him did not dare to go beyond the ancestral system, so there were no officials with two official positions!

Di is very particular about the official positioning of "Pingzhang Affairs and Phoenix Pavilion". Pingzhang, formerly known as Pingzhang Military Affairs, was a position that directly assisted the emperor in handling military affairs. The word "tong" means the same as the servant in the Chinese book. Without this title, even the biggest officials would not be listed as prime ministers, which is equivalent to adding the word "Standing Committee".

It can be seen that in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty at that time, various historical, political and historical backgrounds were always controlling the dynasty at that time, which was also the reason why Wu Zetian was able to control the dynasty to the peak of totalitarianism!