All the ministers were silent.

The type of people who usually make the most noise today have their heads tucked away and even their breathing becomes cautious.

For example, Li Chunyou was deeply afraid of being implicated.

After a moment of silence, Cai Mao stepped out and said: "Your Majesty, I believe that this matter indeed needs to be investigated strictly, but the court must also be prepared for the new official to take office, and it cannot be as simple as a strict investigation."

Zhao Ning said: "Everything must have a cause before it has an effect. If you want to rectify the origin, you need to clear the source. Tell me why it is like this?"

"As His Majesty said, there is a problem at the source, the supervisory system of the country has collapsed, and people are superfluous."

"That's all?"

Zhao Ding came out and said: "Your Majesty, at present, there are four problems reflected in this incident."

"First, there are indeed problems with supervision. From the local criminal and prison bureaus to the supervision of the imperial censor in the capital, the supervision has failed. At least it involves such a big and wide-ranging matter, but no one has reported it."

"Second, the number of officials is redundant and they blame each other."

"Third, the financial audit of the Ministry of Accounts is insufficient, and the financial accounts are confusing and unclear."

"Fourth, the assessment of officials at all levels is not strict, and the annual performance appraisal of officials at all levels is perfunctory."

"This kind of superposition has resulted in people being superfluous and corruptors emerging one after another, too many to count."

Zhao Ding is indeed Zhao Ding.

What is a prime minister?

The prime minister assists the king in managing state affairs.

The prime minister does not play tricks every day as many laymen think.

If you are divorced from the power of state affairs, you are not doing your job properly.

In the vast and vast government affairs, it is even more difficult to sort out a clear context framework.

Most people will only say that the national laws are not strict and supervision needs to be strengthened, or that the officials are unscrupulous and their moral integrity needs to be improved.

"What the Grand Prime Minister said makes sense." Zhao Guanjia's voice was still cold.

"But, why did the supervisory committee fail?"

“Why are officials redundant?”

“Why is there insufficient auditing by the Ministry of Accounts?”

"Why are officials not strictly evaluated?

Zhao Guanjia asked four questions in a row, and each question seemed to be suppressed by a huge force.

The ministers were trembling in their hearts. It seemed that the Zhao Guan family was really going to clear up this matter today.

When it comes to the redundant officials in the Song Dynasty, some people will say that because of the high status of civil servants, there were many people willing to become officials.

actually not!

The direct reason for the excess of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty is very strange.

Zhao Ding continued to answer: "The redundancy of officials is due to the excess number of people in Enyin."

As soon as he said these words, the atmosphere in the hall was completely different.

The enyin system of the Song Dynasty was so wide in scope, so many names, and so large in amount, that it was unprecedented and unprecedented.

The children, descendants, relatives, and even disciples of high-ranking officials may be ennobled through Enyin. The level of the official's position determines the different Enyin benefits he or she enjoys.

"The prime minister can support ten people, six attendants, and four ministers. In addition, after the death of a minister in the court, he can often support many people at one time. Some of them can support no less than twenty people."

"There are so many officials who have not been examined in the imperial examination, but are just favors. The number of people has increased dramatically, but the number of positions is limited. There are sometimes three magistrates in one county, four military officers and soldiers, and even six magistrates in some state capitals."

"Therefore, the number of officials in the country and dynasty is unprecedented."

"However, the harm of redundant officials is that they are overstaffed and cover for each other, and the audit is insufficient. This is because the Audit Institute was established last year and the construction is not yet complete."

"However, even if the construction is complete, there are so many officials, which will increase the power of auditing!"

"As for the lax assessment, it is true that the chaos of official recommendation occurs one after another. Officials recommend officials below to be promoted. The recommended officials have no political achievements after taking office, but they live in peace."

This is nothing.

There were many types of central departments in the Song Dynasty, and all kinds of weird things happened.

There was even a case where a person received two completely different appointments from the Privy Council and the East Palace at the same time.

After Zhao Ding said these words, there was even silence in the court hall.

What is reform?

This is when we enter the deep water zone of reform.

Self-innovation.

From the Qingli Reform in Fan Zhongyan's era, the problem of redundant officials was discussed, and to Wang Anshi's reform in Shenzong's era, it still could not be solved.

Why?

Because the Song Dynasty relied on pleasing the scholar-bureaucrats to maintain its rule.

This is fundamental!

Not to mention that the Tang Dynasty was reasonable. The Tang Dynasty relied on powerful families, and poor families had no chance of success.

The Song Dynasty relied on scholar-bureaucrats to govern the country, which in itself was a progress of the times, but it was obviously an overcorrection.

As for what Zhao Ding said today, everyone present actually knew it very well, but because they all had vested interests, they would naturally pretend to be confused.

The so-called military and political restructuring, this corruption case, is not just about removing corrupt officials.

It's just killing people, treating the symptoms but not the root cause.

If those with vested interests pretend to be ignorant, then Zhao Ning will have people tear apart all these layers in the court.

The most powerful thing is to be torn apart by the prime minister.

This is what reformers should do!

The admonishing officer Li Zhuo immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Zhao has selfish motives. The purpose of the country is to raise scholars to prepare for emergencies. The merits of the scholar-bureaucrats cannot be denied for this reason."

Admonishers, a super group in the Song Dynasty, were specially set up to check and balance the prime minister. They were one of the ways that the imperial power suppressed the power of the prime minister.

Many prime ministers in the Song Dynasty were very afraid of admonishing officials. For example, the famous Wang Anshi was surrounded by admonishing officials.

The remonstrator has a very important voice, and it is not as simple as simply giving an opinion.

As soon as Li Zhu came out, the atmosphere changed again. Many people saw that the admonishment court took action and planned to go out to suppress Zhao Ding's remarks.

Obviously, now is not the time for right and wrong, it has come to a question of interests.

However, Zhao Guanjia said first: "Please step aside first, the admonishment court is not allowed to speak today!"

"His Majesty……"

Zhao Ning slapped the Emperor's Sword on the table and said angrily: "Back off!"

Li Zhuo was so frightened that he quickly stepped aside. He did not expect that Zhao Guan's family would go to court with their swords today.

The other officials who wanted to go out also retreated.

Everyone knew that Zhao Guan's family smashed things in Wende Hall yesterday.

Zhao Guan's family is still angry, so it's better not to get into trouble.

Moreover, everyone thinks that it is understandable for officials to be angry, after all, such a big corruption case is here.

This is the mentality of power tactics: I get angry, but I also want everyone to think that my anger is justified and not unreasonable.

Zhao Ning glared for a week and said: "What Mr. Zhao said makes sense!"

"The Shaanxi pension corruption case gave me a wake-up call! If this continues, how can we continue to fight!"

"They want the Jin people to flatten Hebei and Shaanxi and let the gold thieves invade the city again!"

"They are going to destroy this world by doing this!"

"If you don't change, the world will be in danger!"

Gao Qiu was the first to shout: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Only then did everyone react and shouted: "Your Majesty is wise!"

"Lu Zai!"

Lu Zai came out: "Order the Audit Institute to review all relevant accounts in Shaanxi!"

"I accept the decree!"

"Qin Hui!"

"I'm here!"

"All the guilty officials must be sent to jail for trial!"

"I accept the decree!"

"The Yushitai, the Ministry of Punishment, the Dali Temple, the Military Governor's Office, and the Audit Institute will all be investigated by me one by one. Qin Hui will be in charge!"

"I accept the decree!"

"Zhao Ding!"

"I'm here!"

"Fill the vacant officials within a time limit and order the Dongfu to submit the "Regulations on Elimination of Redundant Officials in the Song Dynasty" and the "Performance Appraisal Rules for Jingkang Officials"!"

"I accept the decree!"
Chapter completed!