The day finally came. On this day, Zhao Xi summoned all the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, the chief officers of the Six Ministries and Nine Ministers, the chief and auxiliary officers of the Jiangwu Hall and Gongfang City, the three ministers who had become officials, and the ministers who had served as governors.
Ministers and ministers, the Wuxun family who had been enfeoffed as princes and still hold important positions in the imperial court, as well as the Zhao family members, etc., gathered together to discuss and decide on the promulgation of the edict on the reform of the three-level decision-making system and the official system.
The entire hall of the Qinzheng Hall was full. Except for Fu Bi and a few other ministers, no one dared to sit down. They were all waiting for the officials to arrive.
Han Qi took a look at the people present. Except for the important ministers, clan relatives and martial arts officials who had become officials, most of the rest should be basically determined to join the political discussion. He found that once the political discussion system was implemented, in terms of numbers, those who absolutely supported the officials would not
Less than half!
The martial arts hall and Gongfang City are the private areas of the official family. Among the current husbands, Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi are also firm supporters of the official family, and they still have the kind of unprincipled support. If we consider the role of the official family among military generals in recent years,
The prestige... He found that the official family had the ability to absolutely control the court.
But Fu Yanguo actually didn’t care about his ministers checking and balancing the monarch’s power!
"Your Majesty has arrived..."
As Wang Zhongzheng's not-so-high-pitched voice fell, the corner door of the Council Hall opened, and officials in regular uniforms slowly entered the Council Hall.
"Welcome Your Majesty!"
"Let's all sit down." Zhao Xi sat down first, then waved his hand and said. This is a necessary procedure. In front of officials, even the husband needs to be given a seat by the officials.
"Today is the last discussion on the three-level decision-making system and the reform of the official system. "Shi Lun" has been publishing the explanations of the three-level decision-making system and the reform of the official system for nearly three months. I believe you should also know something about these two innovations.
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"Today is the last explanation. If there is anything unclear or incomprehensible, including any requirements, you can raise it here. Once the implementation begins, I will not allow anyone to criticize behind my back."
A few pages of paper are placed in front of each seat, which is the final draft of the three-level decision-making system and official reform.
"In the official family, the explanation of the official system reform mentioned that the lords will no longer match the official rank. However, the imperial court still retains the lords. How are the lords under the new official system different from the original lords?"
It's not that Gao Zunfu really doesn't understand, or that he wants to stand out, it's just that the officials didn't respond positively to the questions, and he really doesn't understand the Lord.
From the explanations published in the arrival newspaper, it was understandable that Lord was a civil and military officer. However, Lord was no longer a title in the imperial court, and was no longer equivalent to the imperial title and rank... He was a little confused about this.
"The title of lord in the imperial dynasty has nothing to do with salary. It is just a title. In other words, the court only gives it to casual officials and lords because of certain needs."
"This time the official system reform merged the lords and casual officials to establish a twelve-level lord system, which no longer matches the official rank. In other words, as long as the merit is enough, even low-level civil and military officials may be awarded the same title as important ministers
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"Furthermore, the imperial court will provide certain subsidies to different lords and casual officials. It is not a salary. It has nothing to do with title, dispatch and grade. The lord's subsidy is for life."
"Kings, dukes, marquises, uncles, sons, and men are superior nobles, and can be inherited, and the number decreases from generation to generation. National scholars, talents, role models, models, role models, and pacesetters are inferior nobles, and they are limited to the recipients themselves."
It was the imperial court's financial abundance that allowed Zhao Xi to do this.
From the bottom of his heart, Zhao Xi didn't want to keep these lords and casual officials anymore. They were just idlers, and banning them was the most correct approach. But the reality didn't allow it.
After the reform of the official system, all kinds of post-job subsidies will be completely eliminated, and the money and food received by officials of the same rank in the country and dynasty are very different.
In order to avoid too much resistance to the reform of the official system, another system of subsidy for lords and casual officials had to be left. There are also factors related to the royal relatives.
"Nowadays, there are many civil and military officials in the dynasty who are casual officials and lords. While promoting the reform of the official system, the court has also introduced measures to deal with the original lords and casual officials. As a supporting plan, it has also been consulted by the courtiers. Rich Prime Minister
,Do the courtiers have any objections?"
"Back at the official house, the imperial plan is fair and just, and there are no objections from the courtiers."
The imperial court's method was basically based on salary or the money and food received. For the same rank, the money and food received were very different due to different officials, salary-sending officials and dispatches.
The basic principle of official reform is to change the original money and food while keeping it basically unchanged.
For example, for a fourth-grade official, his official position may be Longtuge's minister, or he may be a left-right and admonishing official. But the assignments vary widely. There are Liucao ministers and state officials. Some of them are not everywhere.
Hanging. Some have Taizhong doctors who are literary and prose officials, and some don't.
This method of building beds and stacking houses and confusing dispatches resulted in too many repeated stacks of salaries, which were too messy and complicated. Even the Ministry of Household Affairs could not understand the salary distribution of the imperial court. As for empty pay, or just receiving money without paying anything.
There are more people doing things.
This is one of the reasons why the civil servants of the dynasty have no respect for the imperial power from the bottom of their hearts... Even if they don't do anything, the court will still give them money. This is also the reason why the courtiers don't care about being demoted, because it does not affect their money and food.
After the reform of the official system, officials will only have official salary and dispatch salary, and the two will have equal weight. This will allow courtiers to gradually value dispatch, which can fundamentally solve the shortcomings of doing things the same or not.
The reform of the official system will also implement a two-line payment model for official and dispatched salaries. Officials' official salaries will be uniformly distributed by the Ministry of Household Affairs, while dispatched salaries will be borne by the local government.
The salary and salary of local officials will be coordinated by one government as the basic unit.
With the expansion of the Royal Bank and the sharing of revenue between the state-owned temples and local governments, as well as the new tax law led by Wang Yu, the tax revenue sharing between local governments and the imperial court was clarified, giving local and state governments a certain degree of financial autonomy.
The implementation of two lines of salary payment can promote the development of local industries to a certain extent. At the same time, it can also allow local state officials to have as few idle officials as possible.
Of course, the premise for this is that the imperial court also determined the grades of county magistrates and chief ministers who were not originally Liunei officials, and the imperial court was responsible for their official salaries.
In addition, the imperial court also stipulated that the right to select officials in prefectures, counties and yamen will be unified under the jurisdiction of the government-level yamen. Gradually, the current mess of officials will be replaced by tribute students and future retired school captains and soldiers.
This is an approach that is conducive to centralized rule and also gives certain powers to local state officials.
The basis for daring to implement such a system is the independence of the government's supervisory office and the system's direct responsibility to the king.
Such a system is likely to cause local officials to have a tendency to be superior. However, the supervision of the yamen, the merit examination of the staff, and the government's responsibility for the official's salary can, to a certain extent, prevent local state officials from disrupting the government.
Moreover, the reform of the official system also clarified that the appointment of all graded officials must go through the Ministry of Personnel, the Cabinet and the king. Even the appointment of officials must be filed with the Ministry of Personnel. At the same time, whether the officials are competent or not when they are in office will be regarded as the chief official of the state.