“The biggest problem of our entire Shuntian Prefecture right now is the severe shortage of manpower. Our entire government office has 26 officials including officials, magistrates, clerks, inspectors, etc., and a total of 543 people including yamen, sergeants, and police officers. "
Lin Pan began to complain bitterly to Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao.
"There are quite a few of you. As far as I know, in a typical state capital, the number of officials will not exceed ten. As for the number of government officials, officials, and police officers, there will not be more than a hundred."
"You have a lot of manpower here in Shuntian Mansion."
When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately said.
"Your Highness Mingjian, because our Shuntian Prefecture is in charge of the capital and is at the foot of the emperor, it is set up at a higher level than other prefectures. The prefects of other prefectures are all fourth-grade officials, and the ministers are third-grade officials."
"At the same time, the personnel allocation and other aspects are also more than other state capitals, and the key is that we in Shuntian Prefecture are facing too many things now."
"I also applied to the court many times for additional relevant officials and manpower, and then it gradually reached its current scale."
Lin Pan also replied quickly.
“How come there are so many people and it’s so busy?”
Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said.
"It is indeed very busy. Your Highness and Mr. Liu must have seen it. There are many people queuing up outside the door waiting to file a lawsuit."
"There are millions of people in this capital city, and there are too many things happening every day."
"There are hundreds or thousands of lawsuits filed every day, involving disputes over property, land, fights, various homicides, thefts, etc. These things alone have already made us busy and dizzy."
"In addition, there are street management, health management, population management, factories, workshops, shops, restaurants, etc. There are too many various things. Even during the Chinese New Year, we don't dare to rest, because the more the Chinese New Year comes, the more time comes. , the more various things happen.”
Lin Pan sighed and began to talk about his situation in detail.
Not to mention anything else now, just public security and hearing cases, and litigation have already made the entire Shuntian Mansion very busy. There is no time, energy, etc. to manage various other things.
", , ,We are very short of manpower."
"Because the police don't have enough manpower, we can only review major murder cases. We have no time to pay attention to petty thefts and the like. This has also led to petty thefts being very rampant here in the capital. "
"Liu Gong, if possible, we here in Shuntian Prefecture would like to add a dozen more officials and about 300 yamen agents, so that we can greatly reduce our work pressure."
It was a rare visit from Liu Jin, so Lin Pan had to bite the bullet and apply to Liu Jin again for additional manpower.
This is already the Nth time he has applied to the superiors for additional officials and manpower. The superiors have approved it several times in the past, which allowed the manpower of Shuntian Mansion to continue to increase.
But it is impossible to always approve it from above, because there are strict regulations on the establishment of government offices in the state. How many people should be appointed as general judges, how many people should be appointed as co-presidents, how many petty officials should be assigned to each person, and how many government servants, official servants, and police officers should be assigned to each person. Wait, these are strictly regulated and you cannot just increase or decrease them casually.
"In my opinion, you may indeed have a shortage of manpower, but more importantly, you are unclear about the settings of responsibilities, offices, prisons, etc., and you have not made detailed divisions, clearly defined powers and responsibilities, areas in charge, etc. .”
Liu Jin looked at Lin Pan, and then at the Shuntian Mansion Office in front of him. The Shuntian Mansion Office occupies a large area, and it looks very crowded when all the offices, jailers, caretakers, experiencers, etc. are all gathered together.
There are a large number of officials working in every room, which makes it very crowded.
Obviously, it has been unable to keep up with the pace of development in the capital by continuing to use the previous settings.
In the past, the capital city was only as big as the inner city, with so many neighborhoods and so on. Most of the place was still occupied by the imperial city, and the population was only about one million.
Naturally, they can live a leisurely life with ease and have nothing to do.
But now, the size of the capital city has already surpassed that of the inner city. It is developing rapidly in all four directions. The scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is already several million larger.
Millions of people come from all over the world, and the population flow is even greater. Moreover, because household registration restrictions have been completely lifted, people can circulate freely. This has also brought about many problems, among which the most serious ones are various
cases occur frequently.
This has been true since ancient times. Where there are many people, there are many things going on, all kinds of things.
In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, with the rapid development of a city, public security issues are definitely a headache for everyone.
Things are better here in the capital, where the emperor is extremely majestic. In addition, there have been several severe crackdowns on gangs and evil in the past few years, which have dealt a heavy blow to the evil forces in Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu and other big cities.
Gang forces and so on, otherwise there will be even more chaos.
It is obviously increasingly difficult to adapt to the needs of urban development by continuing to use the same old system.
The previous system was used to manage hundreds of thousands of people, and it was still a system based on the small-scale peasant economy. However, the current capital city is a big city with great development of capitalism, with a population of several million. The previous system
That set is simply difficult to adapt to current needs.
"Please give me more advice, Mr. Liu."
When Lin Pan heard this, he immediately became anxious.
This is saying that he has not done enough and is not good enough. This Liu Jin is a cabinet minister and a popular person around the emperor. If he says that you are not good enough, you really are not good enough. This official may be the end of his career.
What's more, His Royal Highness is coming this time. He is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. In front of him, it is natural to behave well. But now that he is told that he can't, how can he mess around in the future?
"First of all, the size of the capital city has expanded many times, with development in the four directions of east, west, south and north. Have you set up government offices in these new urban areas?"
"Secondly, various cases occur frequently in the capital. Why haven't you released the power of prison officials accordingly and established yamen similar to county yamen to be responsible for cases in each area? You don't have it, and you are afraid of dividing the power in your hands.
Get out?"
Liu Jin looked at Lin Pan, thought for a while and said.
"This~"
When Lin Pan and others heard this, they immediately had nothing to say. In fact, the current government offices still behave like an official, without any sense of serving the people. They just do it when they have something to do, and drink tea when they have nothing to do. As a result,
It's just that there are so many things now that they are simply too busy, and they don't have time to think about how to really manage the entire Shuntian Mansion.
PS: The weather is hot and cold, so everyone should keep warm. My whole family is suffering from colds and runny noses, which is really annoying!