Zhao Xi really had no intention of digging holes to bury those ministers again this time. After Fu Bi returned to the court, signs of the unity of the monarch and his ministers appeared, so there was no need for him to slap people in the face again and again.
As for the ministers who made a fuss in public this time, their level is not high enough. Even if they are all included, they are not enough for Zhao Xi to cook in one pot.
After the supervision system was completed, Zhao Xi took the prototype of the reform of the local system of the country and the dynasty.
In terms of the overall structure, military, political affairs, finance, commerce, supervision, and a hierarchical system subordinate to the imperial court were established from the imperial court to the local governments.
In the military, the Privy Council is in charge of generals and troop deployment, the Ministry of War is in charge of armaments and low-level officers, and the construction and transportation of armaments are all controlled by Gongfang City. This fundamentally eliminates the possibility of military generals causing rebellion, and changes the system from the perspective of generals who do not know how to do it.
The shortcomings of military affairs have also procedurally changed the ancestral system of the country's dynasty's control of military affairs with culture.
In terms of political affairs, local officials are no longer involved in the military and can focus on people's livelihood and government affairs. Zhao Xi's divestment of financial power also prevents local officials from wasting public funds or even using public funds for banquets and entertainment.
Shiyi Temple supervises commercial activities and effectively grasps the tax revenue situation in various places. In the future, all tax revenue will be issued by the Sansi Envoy and will be handled by the Royal Bank.
The discretionary power of local officials only leaves two taxes. In order to make the state government over which they govern more comfortable, local officials will work hard to open up wasteland and prevent land annexation to ensure local tax revenue.
At the same time, in terms of promoting government-run industries, Zhao Xi has turned local prefectures, counties and counties into owners of various industries... In the future, this part of the income will be much higher than the agricultural tax.
Zhao Xi also knows that it is difficult to change people's dependence on land for thousands of years. He just wants to make his people look down on land as much as possible.
Ensuring food supply is one thing, while reducing the value of land is what Zhao Xi has been committed to doing.
For this reason, he has never thought about conquering Annan, although taking Annan would be easy for the military power of the current dynasty, and even some officials in the court have made such a proposal.
Before expanding the territory and developing additional food supplies and production areas, Zhao Xi did not consider conquering Annan for the time being, because the dynasty needed Annan to stably provide food for the Song Dynasty.
In fact, using the so-called royal way to make Annan attach himself to the dynasty is not an option. However, Zhao Xi is still greatly influenced by later generations and always believes that people who are not of my race must have different intentions. It is appropriate to apply it to Annan.
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This is still a long time coming.
Making people look down on land and lowering its value does not mean that Zhao Xi does not value agriculture. Agriculture is the primary industry, and this is the right thing to do.
If you want the people to look down on the land and reduce its value, you must let the people see the fact that they can survive without relying on the land.
This requires promoting the industrialization process of the country to a certain extent. It may be said that industrialization is too big, and without the development of basic disciplines, the so-called industrialization is better said to be craftsmanship.
There is only one purpose, to make materials as abundant as possible.
Zhao Xi also wanted to promote the development of natural science and tried his best to do so. He gave Su Song and Shen Kuo unlimited access to money and food, just to pin his hopes on them.
All Zhao Xi can do is to make some pointers. This is not only determined by identity, but the key is that Zhao Xi believes that what belongs to this era should be created by the characters of this era.
Industrialization cannot be promoted by Zhao Xi just by setting up a workshop city. All Zhao Xi can do is guide.
Only in this era can we establish an industrial atmosphere, create an environment for industrial development, and introduce policies to promote industrialization, so that everyone from officials to businessmen, from businessmen to people, and even to scholar-bureaucrats can benefit from industrialization.
Promote the development of industrialization in this era.
Otherwise, Zhao Xi is covered in iron, how many nails can he drive?
In all of this structural design, Zhao Xi has never forgotten supervision. The establishment of a supervision system, complete details, a three-year rotation system, the setting of a traceability mechanism, etc., allow the supervision system to function effectively.
Moreover, Zhao Xi also has his own Imperial City Division detective...
Next comes the real issue of official reform.
First, let the Ministry of Personnel formulate unified official ranks. From the political hall, the six ministries and nine ministers to the chief officials and assistant officials of prefectures, counties, and counties, the official ranks of each position should be clarified, and the original official system of building beds and stacking houses should be abolished.
We also formulate detailed promotion conditions, refine the qualifications, and formulate performance evaluation methods that adapt to the actual situation and promote development.
Zhao Xi did not expect to put an end to human relationships, nor would future generations do so. What's more, in this era where inheritance from masters and patriarchal traditions are greater than heaven, he just tried to standardize the entire bureaucracy as much as possible.
Secondly, the Ministry of Household Affairs began to investigate the current total salary of various official, title, post, dispatch, lord and other types of subsidies. Based on this, based on the official ranks determined by the Ministry of Personnel, an official salary corresponding to the official rank and salary was formed.
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The new official salary system should not only reflect the difference in official rank, but also reflect the difference in function, the difference between being dispatched or not, and the difference between becoming an official and being in office.
The new official salary system will ignore the distinction between civil and military personnel, pay attention to regional differences, focus on rewards and punishments for political performance, focus on family background but not just family background, look at resume instead of just resume, and rely on official rank instead of just official rank.
Furthermore, it is the core of the official reform and the top-level design of the bureaucracy of the country, which is the three-level decision-making system envisioned by Zhao Xi.
The court is the lowest level, followed by the political level, the cabinet, and finally his decision as the king.
The court meeting is the first level of political participation, that is to say, participating in the court meeting only has the qualifications to participate in politics. To put it bluntly, it is the qualification to know the government affairs.
Those who participate in politics can review the government's affairs, but only in the form of memorials, and they must not criticize the final policies.
Next is the administrative level. In the country, administrative affairs should belong to the real court officials. The chief officials of the Fourteenth House, the chief officials of the Six Ministries and Nine Ministers, the Royal Bank, Gongfang City, Lecture Hall and the newly established Shiyi Temple
, state-run temples, supervisory yamen, etc., all have certain seats in political discussions.
This should be the level at which the policy of the country is proposed. At this level, you can argue and debate, but once the policy is submitted to the cabinet and the emperor makes a decision, no matter whether you object or not, the next step is to implement it.
The next level up is the cabinet level, which is now called Xianggong.
In Zhao Xi's setting, the cabinet, which is now called the Prime Minister, is best able to be elected and then decided by himself, and the emperor must have the final veto power.
It's just that Zhao Xi cannot replace all the ministers who are currently in office, so the current cabinet can only be supplemented from ministers with administrative levels.
Then, according to the vacancies in the discussion of affairs, fill in the affairs.
Zhao Xi even thought about the issue of tenure. For example, he implemented the tenure system in the Supervisory Yamen, Guoying Temple and Shiyi Temple...
In fact, the terms of office of these yamen are only the terms of local offices. There are really no restrictions on the level of the imperial court. Even the political affairs hall did not mention it when formulating the relevant details.
Once officials reach this level, it is the emperor who decides whether they should stay or go.
Zhao Xi was not sure whether he should limit the power of the king since he was in the position of a king... He had been hesitating.