Chapter 1631 Officials

This has led to the strange phenomenon in Daming Prefecture today. The common people are still happily fighting against each other after losing three fights, which makes the officials very confused. Is this Hebei where the people are fierce and often raise flags to rebel?

Su You basically traveled this year and did not patrol. This is the credit of deputy envoy Wang Kechen, secretary-in-charge Wang Yanbi, judge Wang Cai, Gongfang official Hong Jiang and others.

Of course, it is impossible for the whole world to be filled with Wujiazhuang, Wujiazhuang is just a special case among special cases, but the great increase in the agricultural output value of Daming Prefecture is a fact.

This year's Hebei Fourth Road also created a big news. In the official examination held by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the results of Hebei Fourth Road officials even surpassed those of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Sichuan with strong literary styles, and even surpassed the officials who had experienced cumbersome government affairs for a long time. I trained Bianjing and won the first place steadily.

In order to encourage everyone to become proficient in government affairs, Gao Taotao also decreed that officials with outstanding performance will receive a first-level salary. This is very beneficial.

The officials of the Daming Prefecture were so grateful that Su You had strictly supervised the two devilishly difficult mock exams before that they went home and started educating their children again.

What does it mean to have a golden house in a book? Look at your father and I am! If you read more books, you will be rewarded by the Emperor and the Queen Mother, and your salary will also be raised!

The conditions are so good now. Pencils and notebooks are given out at the beginning of school, and cakes are given out every afternoon. What qualifications do you have to not study hard?

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During the six-month journey, Su You kept a diary every day. If he docked in Zhouzhi, he would seal the diary for a period of time in a secret folder and send it to the capital.

There are many and complicated things inside, including local specialties, customs, anecdotes, and the daily lives of people in various professions, officials, and sergeants.

There are also price differences in different places, whether officials can manage transportation, education, commerce, even entertainment, monks and Taoism...

Anyway, no matter the scenery, culture, or local food, if you encounter anything worth recording, just write it down.

Zhao Xu read a real Hebei through Su You's pen, how the poor lived, how the rich lived, and how the people who were neither poor nor rich lived.

How did they pass on from generation to generation on this land, what hardships they experienced, what joys they gained, what worries, what needs, what gains, what expectations...

There is also the research, research, thinking, and insights on the four-way issues on my own journey...

Occasionally, I also write some poems, record some local ditties, some stories seen from local historical records and broken monuments, or some unknown legends about famous people in their hometowns.

Zhao Xu couldn't reply because Su You was always on the move. At most, he would send telegrams to each other while everyone was standing in front of the telegraph machine. The content was "I received Bingyin's discount coupon recently and I like it very much." "The summer water has risen, please be careful." "Any anecdotes about Zhao Zilong when picking in Changshan?" "Xianqing's colander in Xian'an." Such short replies.

Occasionally, Zhao Xu would mention what happened in the court in his telegrams, and Su You would often get the information earlier than officials outside Bianjing.

For example, in September, there was a disturbance in the court.

The matter started over the appointment and dismissal of officials.

The roots are still based on the restructuring of Yuanfeng.

After Yuanfeng's reform, the official quota set by the world was much higher than the old quota before the reform.

This was Su You's advice to Zhao Xu. Today, the Song Dynasty and the Han and Tang Dynasties are completely different. The management is much more detailed and there are many more affairs. Unlike the extensive political power of the Han and Tang Dynasties, which did not go to the countryside, the "Prefecture County Magistrate Contract Responsibility System"

There has been a big difference.

Coupled with the prosperity of commerce and the increase in mobility, it is normal that there are more officials than in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

However, after many years of administration, the court also discovered a problem, that is, the previous design was still too extensive, with some departments having too many officials and some departments having too few officials, so it was necessary to make adjustments.

This involves the issue of quotas.

Civil service reform is a real deep-water area.

One of Su Che's subordinates named Bai Zhongfu suggested to Su Che: "It's actually not difficult to determine the official positions. The department in charge of this matter used to be called Liu Neiquan, but now it has been renamed as the Minister Zuo Xuan. It is the department with the heaviest workload."

"Let's take this department as an example. In the past, there were only a dozen or so officials responsible for examinations, but now there are dozens of people. This means that the number of tasks has not increased, but the number of officials has doubled."

"Why? Because before Yuanfeng's restructuring, the state did not implement strict laws and remuneration for officials. Officials were greedy for bribes and did not want to have more people to spread their income, so they tried their best to do things and did not avoid work."

"Nowadays, the law is respected, salaries are paid heavily, bribes are less than before, and officials also have fixed incomes. Therefore, they are not afraid of adding more people to the department, but are happy to have less work."

"This is the essential change in officialdom over the years."

"To determine how many people a department needs, it's actually very simple. The old law divided each department into seven levels according to the difficulty of its affairs. We use this as a standard. Heavy work is counted as one point, and easy work is counted as one cent.

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"We only need to take two months of affairs from each department and make an analysis and statistics. The scores of all affairs can be determined, and then the sum can be divided into one person. In this way, there is no escape from the limit of the number of officials in each department.

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Su Zhe believed that this suggestion was very valuable, and added his own idea, that is, no one should be laid off at the moment. He only needs to wait for the staff to be transferred out when they are old enough or die. Departments with excess staff will not be replenished until the quota is reached.

Just stop.

With such a low profile, within ten years, those departments with excess quotas will naturally disappear.

It should be said that Su Che's idea was very reasonable and feasible, so this suggestion was reported to the Ministry of Finance and was approved at that time.

A few months later, the statistical work of various departments was completed, and Su Zhe made a report based on the statistical data to apply for the three provinces.

Lu Dafang was overjoyed to receive the letter. He believed that this would be a great political achievement during his term of office, so he paid special attention to it and set up a department to determine the matter in detail.

There was an official named Ren Yongshou, who was capable and smooth. He knew in advance that the imperial court was going to carry out official quota reforms and made preparations in advance.

Every time I see Lu Dafang, I can talk freely.

Lu Dafang appreciated this very much, so he established the Lifufang in Shangshu Province and asked Ren Yongshou and several officials to prepare for this matter.

However, Lu Dafang made a mistake. He wanted to live alone, and because the Lifufang was a newly established department, he did not inform his subordinate provinces.

But Gao Taotao had to know about this matter. One day, two documents signed by Gao Taotao appeared in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. One of them was to approve the quota of a department official.

After the provincial minister received this document, the official on duty went to Liu Zhi, the minister of the province, and asked him to send it to the minister and not to deal with it.

Liu Zhi said: "All documents of that time must be recorded under Huang Guo's family, and they should be handled according to the regulations."

The official said: "The chief official of Shangshu Province has been in his province for a long time. This document was sent here because of a mistake."

Liu Zhi replied: "This province doesn't know anything else, everything should be as per the laws."

So the Ministry of Menxia included this document in the scope of review, and then made a record of it, that is, signed the opinions, and then forwarded it to Ren Yongshou and others.

Ren Yongshou couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Lu Huang, his disciple: "Both provinces were not involved in this matter before, how come Lu Huang appears above them now?"

It should be said that Ren Yongshou was relatively cautious, so he went to Lu Dafang and asked Lu Dafang to inform his subordinates and select officials to go to the bureau to take charge of the matter.

Lu Dafang went to Liu Zhi to explain his intention, and Liu Zhi said: "It is the law to record the records of the disciples, and it is not intended to express dissatisfaction with the officials who handled the matter. Now let the people from the two provinces share the credit, there is no such thing

necessary."

Lu Dafang didn't think much of himself. When the matter of fixing official quotas came down, Ren Yongshou and others received awards from the court.

However, Ren Yongshou was eager for utilitarianism and persuaded Lu Dafang to lay off the redundant officials in a short period of time based on the appointed official quotas. After obtaining the agreement, he privately adjusted the ranks of various officials according to his own preferences and friendship.

Of course, the excluded officials were dissatisfied and went to the Yushitai to complain to Liu Zhengfu.

Liu Zhengfu immediately wrote a chapter impeaching Ren Yongshou and others for taking advantage of rewards for favoritism, and they must be punished. All the officials in Yushitai followed suit.

Ren Yongshou and others were expelled because of this, and the excluded officials sued Elu and the matter was never resolved.

Su Zhe learned about it and wrote a letter: "The methods detailed in the previous and later provinces are all convenient for human reasons and are very easy to implement. When the officials' foreheads were changed, they were all inconvenient for human factors and were the most difficult to implement."

"And the imperial court must not lose its trust. We should quickly order you to change it to a convenient method to calm the aspirations of the officials."
Chapter completed!