Chapter 550: The lack of talent in Ming Dynasty(1/2)
News of the reform of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce was already released on the morning of the third day.
The officials were shocked.
This is really shocking. Who would have thought that His Highness Taisun would kill the golden rooster that laid his own eggs?
On the surface, the Qunying Chamber of Commerce is just a change, but after losing its invisible power, especially His Highness Taisun's platform, the Qunying Chamber of Commerce can still be the same as it is now.
Not to mention that after the division, it was directly brought under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and even under the management of the local magistrate.
But in the final analysis, this Chamber of Commerce has always belonged to His Highness the Grand Sun. Judging from his appearance, His Majesty must have agreed. Although the ministers below were grumbling in their hearts, they had nothing to say.
Only some well-informed ministers knew that His Highness Taisun was actually abandoning his carriage to protect his commander.
Zhu Ying didn't know much about the problems of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, but those ministers who had frequent contact with the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, especially the Ministry of Revenue, had long been aware of the hidden dangers of the Chamber of Commerce.
However, His Highness Taisun's power is too huge, especially because he is extremely favored by His Majesty. Under such circumstances, no one dares to make any bad suggestions to the Qunying Chamber of Commerce.
As for the Qunying Chamber of Commerce located in the capital, it is within the sight of His Highness Taisun, so in fact there is not much of a problem.
No matter how domineering the members of the Chamber of Commerce are, as long as they come to the capital, they will act like a different person.
This is why Zhu Ying's personal deterrence is sufficient.
However, no one thought that such a big plate would collapse as soon as His Highness the Grand Sun said it would collapse.
It is completely conceivable that when this reform is implemented, the entire Qunying Chamber of Commerce will become completely different.
In the morning meeting, Zhu Ying made an announcement rather than a discussion.
According to the rules and regulations, it is considered a notice.
The ministers are most concerned about the newly established State-owned Assets Management Department.
This is definitely a fat mistake.
Anyone can think of it.
There have long been rumors that the Qunying Chamber of Commerce under His Highness Taisun controls 80% of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and now that it has spread and is under separate jurisdiction, there must be a lot of oil and water in it.
In this regard, various regions need the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Personnel to draw up a list of officials.
There are now more than a thousand county towns in the Ming Dynasty.
The determination of this list alone must have resulted in the birth of thousands of new officials.
Strictly speaking, there are currently no alternate officials in the Ming Dynasty.
When the Department of Public Security was established previously, a large number of candidate officials had been taken away, and then a large number of Imperial College students and candidate officials were transferred to the grassland border to assist in pacifying the herdsmen.
All of a sudden, thousands of officials could appear from nowhere.
After the morning dynasty, Zhao Mian, the Minister of Hubu, and Zhan Hui, the Minister of Personnel, came to the Huagai Hall.
"Your Highness, there are currently no candidates for official positions in the list of the Ministry of Household Affairs. The cumulative number is less than 200. Now there is a list of at least 5,000 officials. It is really hard for me to make a fool of myself."
"Currently, according to His Highness Taisun's request, a three-point system has been implemented for officials from various places, which has also led to a large number of officials to fill the gap."
"Now the requirement for officials is to have two years of grassroots work experience. Calculated in this way, even if we find a way to transfer from other departments, we will not be able to complete the list."
"Let alone five thousand people, even if there are five hundred people, I will still feel physically and mentally exhausted."
Zhan Hui vomited his bitterness.
This really made things difficult for him.
In fact, as a talent reserve, this is what Zhan Hui has been doing. Originally, there were quite a lot of available people in Zhan Hui's own talent list.
But I can't stand His Highness Taisun's continuous emptying out.
Looking back over the past years, there are really too many newly established yamen.
For example, the Statistics Department is the chief officer of hundreds of people, not counting the staff below.
There is also an extremely huge data on the sub-management personnel arranged by counties and prefectures in various places.
By the time we arrived at the grassland border gate, even the students from the Imperial College had already passed through.
Now we will establish a state-owned assets management department.
Just do some calculations, even based on the minimum standard of five people in a county, that is more than 5,000 people.
How could Zhan Hui produce so many officials?
Zhao Mian, the Minister of Household Affairs, saw that after Zhan Hui finished speaking, he also started to complain.
"Your Highness, there are fewer and fewer people in the Household Department now, and they are becoming less and less useful. According to your Highness's previous request, all departments must have an arithmetic co-ordinator."
"This kind of calculation is naturally most familiar to the ministers and workers in the Chenhu Department. This has also led to a large number of other yamen looking for a secondment from Chenhe."
"What kind of secondment is this? It's just like a meat bun beating a dog and never coming back. When I went, I agreed easily, but when I let him come back, there was no news at all. I refused no matter what."
"Here, as soon as Shangshu Zhan heard about the important person in the newly established State-owned Assets Management Department of His Highness, he just put his idea on the Minister and Household Department. How did this happen?"
"The officials here are all busy until late at night. One person is doing the work of two or three people, and even one person cannot be spared."
When Zhan Hui talked about this, he burst into tears.
When it comes to arithmetic, there are naturally a lot of talents in the Ministry of Revenue. After all, you have to work in the Ministry of Accounts, and arithmetic is a long-term need.
When the Statistics Department was established, a large number of arithmetic talents were needed, and of course they were transferred from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Later, Zhu Ying required all local government offices to make extremely detailed reports on all internal expenditures, expenditures, and a series of other matters. This also led to an extremely increased demand for arithmetic talents.
The art of arithmetic and calculation is a minor path in today's society.
The real road lies in the Four Books and Five Classics.
This is also the common understanding of all readers.
The level of arithmetic in the Central Plains region has been very high since ancient times, but this only includes a very small number of people, and most people have no energy to learn these.
Arithmetic is inherently a very laborious matter. It is not enough to study the classics and classics, and few people will put their minds on it.
Furthermore, arithmetic is not tested in the imperial examination.
The Ministry of Household Affairs is entirely due to work reasons, and many yamen officials only learned it later.
As time goes by, you will naturally become proficient.
Zhu Ying paid great attention to data. In this era, many arithmetic data can better reflect the current situation of the Ming Dynasty.
With such a large territory, it is impossible for Zhu Ying to conduct field inspections everywhere every day.
Therefore, statistical requirements were issued to many yamen.
If you just think about it, you will know that the current State-owned Assets Management Department must carry out a large number of arithmetic approvals according to Zhu Ying's temperament.
Zhan Hui couldn't find anyone, and the Ministry of Revenue couldn't find anyone else.
If another group of people are transferred from the household department, there may be a big problem in even normal work operations.
As far as the current staff is concerned, the workload is already several times that of when Zhu Ying entered the palace two years ago.
The large amount of work has made the Ministry of Accounts, an oil and gas bureau, no longer interested in engaging in corruption.
Working overtime has become a norm, it can be said to be the Ming Dynasty version of 996.
This also led to the mentality of many officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs wanting to leave.
After Zhu Ying listened to the two men's stories, he nodded and replied: "I have also heard what the two ministers said. With the development of our Ming Dynasty, yamen in various places are in need of talents with arithmetic skills.
It’s constantly rising.”
"I can say this, in the future, there will only be more and more talents related to arithmetic. Arithmetic is an indispensable part of all walks of life."
"Whether it is me or the two ministers, they are here in the capital every day. There are several opportunities throughout the year to conduct inspections in other places."
"To be precise, if you want to know the situation below at any time, you can only make a deduction through some arithmetic."
"I have informed Grandpa and will make an announcement soon. The arithmetic section will be added to the current imperial examination books for an assessment."
"Of course, joining now will not quench the current shortage of arithmetic talents. I have thought about it carefully, who is the most used person in arithmetic nowadays?"
"After thinking about it, I discovered that the talents who can really use arithmetic for a long time do not lie in the household department, nor in the court, but in the accountant."
"There is no restriction on the promotion of talents. I feel that we can conduct a temporary assessment and allow officials, even ordinary people, to use work-for-relief methods to temporarily replace the original official requirements."
"Zhan Shangshu, you are in charge of the staff. What do you think of my proposal?"
Relief for work generally refers to relief for people displaced by famine.
What Zhu Ying mentioned here is to replace officials with non-official bodies.
Zhan Hui was stunned for a moment.
He had no idea that His Highness Taisun would come up with such a solution.
Just after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it seems to be more feasible.
There are quite a lot of folk talents in today's era. The development of Shushu Yiyi does not lie in the temples, but in the folk.
To be honest, many newly appointed officials in the Ministry of Revenue, without being exposed to arithmetic, often find some private accounting masters to learn from them.
Now His Royal Highness Taisun's intention is to cancel this part and directly allow those talents who have not passed the imperial examination to hold official positions.
To be continued...