Chapter 2170 Denmark is fully transformed into Tang Dynasty
Since local provincial roads cannot be merged, nor can a first-level local administrative agency be established on top of provincial roads, the cabinet can only bite the bullet and directly govern dozens of local administrative areas.
The current approach is to increase personnel at the cabinet level and adopt a system of division of responsibilities.
The so-called division of responsibility system is to assign multiple deputies to the department chief in a department to assist in handling global affairs.
This kind of division of management does not mean partition management, but assigning different affairs to different people to reduce the burden on the chief officer.
Take the current Imperial Ministry of Agriculture as an example. As an important agency responsible for agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, immigration and other matters throughout the empire, the importance of the Ministry of Agriculture is self-evident. Its business scope spans the world. In order to better handle the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture on a global scale
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In addition to the original regular ministers, Zuo Shilang, and Right Shilang, the Ministry of Agriculture has added four deputy ministers, with the rank of third-rank officials, whose powers are greater than those of third-rank officials such as departments and bureaus.
The addition of four deputy ministers actually means that the number of senior officials in the Ministry of Agriculture has been reduced from three to seven in order to adapt to the increasingly heavy global affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture.
In fact, the Ministry of Agriculture has already carried out relevant reforms in the Immigration and Reclamation Department as a pilot project for this system of adding personnel to assign responsibilities. At the beginning, there was nothing special about the Immigration and Reclamation Department, but gradually a number of deputy directors were added.
The additional deputy directors are all deputy directors with real power, and each deputy director will be responsible for different affairs.
Otherwise, the original director and the deputy director alone would not be able to manage the immigration and reclamation affairs in so many places around the world.
This system of adding multiple deputy positions to take charge of different affairs was quickly promoted in various economic agencies after the successful pilot project of the Immigration and Reclamation Department.
This has resulted in the phenomenon that there are more deputy ministers in Gyeonggi agencies. Among them, there are six deputy ministers in the Ministry of Personnel, the core power department, and eight deputy ministers in the more core tax department.
However, deputy positions in various departments cannot be added just because they want to be added. They all need to apply for approval. After all, people in the Tang Dynasty pay attention to one official and one position. They are very cautious about job arrangements and increase or decrease in establishment. This is mainly due to the consideration of officials.
There are too many people at home, which leads to too much financial pressure.
Even in order to further reduce financial pressure, the Tang Empire had already carried out de-administrative reforms on some non-administrative institutions very early on.
For example, in the early years, in order to develop, some cities would officially organize some public service agencies, such as water supply, urban rail transit, sanitation, etc.
These are typical public service institutions. In the early days of the Tang Empire, there was no clear regulation. In some places, relevant professional companies were set up with official capital investment to handle them, while in other cases, the government directly set up administrative agencies to handle them.
, and some simply outsource private capital investment-related companies to handle these matters.
Forty years after Xuanping, the empire proposed the administrativeization of some areas and districts, requiring some cities to be restructured by some public service institutions directly under the official jurisdiction, and the entire institution to be restructured into a state-owned enterprise controlled by official capital, and the administrative personnel became official
employee.
This is a relatively large-scale restructuring in the Tang Empire in recent years.
So far, non-administrative agencies in various regions have completed their restructuring. They no longer have temporary administrative establishments, but have been transformed into enterprises controlled by state-owned capital.
However, this is only limited to the restructuring of ordinary non-administrative institutions. For the public medical and education industries, administrative jurisdiction is still adopted, and the main employees of government-run schools and hospitals are awarded grades. However, these grades only enjoy benefits, which are different from ordinary administrative grades.
Different.
In addition to these non-administrative institutional reforms, related reforms in other aspects of the empire have actually never stopped.
For example, the most watched joint examination system has been undergoing continuous reform. In the 42nd year of Xuanping, the Tang Empire completely abolished the policy of unified allocation of new officials by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and instead adopted a new 'voluntary model'
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This voluntary model means that new officials who pass the general examination can choose their work units and positions according to their own wishes.
If multiple people choose the same position, based on their scores in the previous written examination, only those with higher scores can go, while those with lower scores can only go to the second or even third position after being unsuccessful.
If you are not selected for all the volunteer positions, then I'm sorry, but you have to obey the unified allocation by the staff.
To put it bluntly, it is to completely cancel the agency's self-selection, and even avoid the power allocated by the Ministry of Personnel and the Provincial Department of Human Affairs. All new officials will be based on their willingness and written examination scores to further avoid nepotism and other corrupt behaviors.
This move was actually the Holy Emperor imitating the college entrance examination system of later generations.
Although this system was only used to admit students in later generations, it could also be used as an official selection system in the Tang Empire.
When various agencies are short of personnel, they apply to the Provincial Highway and Civil Affairs Department for staff allocation, while agencies directly under the central government apply to the Ministry of Civil Affairs for staff allocation.
The Ministry of Personnel and the Provincial Highway and Personnel Affairs Department will directly recruit as many people as possible based on the number of positions that are vacant that year. The final selection will be based on the results of the written examination, and the allocation will be based on the voluntary principle of the candidates.
This measure had enabled the Tang Empire to ensure the fairness of the joint examination system as much as possible.
Of course, every system will have loopholes, and all the empire has to do is ensure relative fairness as much as possible.
At least the empire must maintain the superficial fairness of the joint examination system and convince the unsuccessful scholars to avoid causing any turmoil.
After all, selecting officials through joint examinations is not just about selecting talents.
Another deep-seated goal of the General Examination is to continuously attract a new generation of elites.
On the one hand, it allows them to better contribute their talents to the huge ruling institution of the Tang Empire. On the other hand, it also prevents them from living outside and rebelling against others. Or seeing that they cannot be officials in the Tang Dynasty, they turn around and run to the Tatars.
people or other indigenous countries to seek glory and wealth.
In this regard, the examination system actually cooperated with the education system of the Tang Dynasty.
There were not many higher education institutions at the two levels of universities and junior colleges in the Tang Empire. Except for a few military academies under the jurisdiction of the military, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the Royal Youth Military Academy, there were all other general comprehensive universities or junior colleges.
All were government-run schools. Over the years, the Tang Empire did not even let private capital open its own institutions of higher learning.
The establishment of institutions of higher learning and the scale of enrollment are all the responsibility of the Education Department under the Ministry of Rites.
The annual enrollment scale of these colleges and universities is determined based on the empire's demand for new officials and the forecast demand for elite talents in other industries, rather than based on any other reasons.
In other words, the empire needs 100 college students, and the education department only trains 100 college students, and will never train 101 college students.
Because if the empire can only provide good jobs for a hundred college students, then the extra college student will be a disaster!
For today's Tang Empire, harmony and stability are the most important!
The imperial examination system and education system of the Tang Empire are as balanced as the empire can achieve in contemporary times.
At least whether it is good or not can only be judged by future generations.
However, in the eyes of the indigenous people, everything about the Tang Dynasty was good, so when other indigenous countries conducted education and imperial examinations, they all followed the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that most of them have learned the same things, and the only ones that have done better are the Tang Dynasty, the Golden Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark.
And these two countries have a very interesting feature, that is, their official language is Chinese!
As for the Tatars, it is normal that their official language is Chinese. The Tatars have never considered themselves to be indigenous Europeans.
They migrated from the Mongolian grasslands, especially the Hetao area, and the Tatars feel that they belong to a branch of the Tang Dynasty.
This situation became more obvious after the Tang Dynasty twice canonized them as kings of Shunyi and granted them the title of the Kingdom of Jin in the Tang Dynasty. Now many Tatars with a thicker skin dare to openly call themselves Tang people!
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the official language of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom was Chinese.
As for the Kingdom of Denmark, they will naturally not say that they are from the Tang Dynasty. After all, their appearance is so different that no one would believe them.
But these Danes have been studying the Tang Empire!
After Denmark moved to northwest Africa, life was very tight in the early days. Later, it gradually developed by relying on the prosperous routes along the western coast of Africa.
Before the Suez Canal was opened, ships from the Tang Dynasty had to detour through Africa if they wanted to travel to Europe. Some ships from the Indian Ocean to the Americas would sometimes pass through Ceuta before heading there.
The numerous ships coming and going allowed the Kingdom of Denmark to seize the opportunity to provide various supplies, port services, etc. to the Tang Dynasty on the route. It was able to gain a foothold. Later, it developed the inland to grow cash crops and develop animal husbandry to sell wool.
People of the Tang Dynasty.
Relying on coastal trade and resource exports, the Danes gradually bulged their pockets. Later, after they developed, they had a serious conflict with the Kingdom of Morocco.
The two sides fought for the rights and interests of coastal trade in northwest Africa. To put it bluntly, they fought for the right to sell more goods to the Tang Dynasty!
However, the Kingdom of Morocco is backed by Ceuta, has abundant funds, a large population, and has established a modern army, so it has defeated the Kingdom of Denmark several times in a row.
After suffering a defeat, the Danish king calmed down and finally decided to carry out comprehensive reforms.
And how to reform? Pure political system? Economic? Military reform?
No, these are not enough, far from enough!
They want to carry out comprehensive Tangization, not only the Tangization of various systems, but also comprehensive Tangization at the cultural and ideological level!
They want to turn themselves into Tang Dynasty people!