The topic of official system reform was already understood by the ministers before the Yanmen Pass Battle.
The entire plan for the reform of the official system was basically set by the officials, and the ministers drafted it. After several iterations, it was finally finalized.
The courtiers should have known that the reason why Zhao Xi convened this enlarged political discussion was not unnecessary.
According to Zhao Xi's experience in later generations, not many people actually carefully consider the so-called discussion draft. Only at the last moment will people start from their own interests and start to consider the benefits and disadvantages of the plan that is about to be drafted.
This time, Zhao Xi was just starting to discuss politics. Just like Gao Zunfu asked, he only needed to open up the form of the discussion.
And what Zhao Xi asked Fu Bi clearly told the princes: The next step is your business.
Indeed, the discussion that followed was not intense, or more like a question and answer session. It was nothing more than a repetition of the interpretation of "Shi Lun" or a colloquialism.
This political discussion basically covers various types of affairs at a certain level between the country and the dynasty. By completing this Q&A, we can tell the world.
The so-called reform is the re-division of interests. Even if Zhao Xi is based on the principle of stabilization and reducing changes, there are still winners and losers.
In order to focus on seniority, and to take into account the current situation of those senior ministers who have failed to succeed, we have adopted the method of equalizing official salary based on seniority.
For example, Su Shi and Lu Huiqing were both in the second year of Jiayou, but their current officials are actually different. Including Feng Jing's term, Wu Chong's term, and even Han Qi, Wang Gui and Fu Bi were in the same year.
Today's boss will definitely not be the same.
After the reform of the official system, as long as they have the same qualifications and no serious faults, the official salary will be equalized by the court and only the dispatch salary will be used to distinguish.
This is a fuzzy statistical and accounting method.
Compared with those who hold high positions in the court, they may suffer a loss in terms of official salary, but as long as they add the salary of commissions and nobles, they will still maintain the current level.
When dispatching officials with lower official positions and relatively senior qualifications, it is nothing more than distributing various subsidies between the official and the dispatched officials in another way.
Combined with the increasing proportions mentioned in the official system reform year by year and the different assignments, the actual money and food received in the future will be larger and larger. This can greatly stimulate the ambition of the ministers to seek higher and better assignments.
It is of great benefit to change the current lazy and lazy administration of the country.
For courtiers with high qualifications and low official positions, they will make a profit in the short term. At least their official salaries will increase. But if you understand the essence of the entire official system reform, you will have a great impact on promotion.
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At first glance, it seems that the imperial court will increase expenditures, and perhaps the ministers and workers of the imperial court thought that there would be an increase in payments. However, the accounting team led by Jia Xian made detailed calculations and found that after the reform of the official system, the imperial court will reduce its expenditure by more than 200,000 guan per year.
Salary payment... In fact, what Zhao Xi is preparing to increase expenditure is just the chaotic salary mechanism. After cleaning up, the court has a surplus.
"The issue of the tenure system needs to be made clear by the officials and everyone. The new official system stipulates that the chief and adjutant generals of prefectures and counties, as well as the chief and adjutant chiefs and adjutants of local garrisons, have five-year terms. They will be transferred after the expiration of the term. I wonder what the basis for this transfer is?"
The atmosphere of the discussion was very good, not only the chief officers of the Six Departments and Nine Ministers, but also Su Che, who was talking about the teachings of the martial arts hall, also participated.
Su Che should be asking this because of his second brother Su Shi, who always made people worry about him.
"The lieutenants-general of prefectures, counties and generals above the first level of the army must implement the five-year transfer system. There is no room for this."
"As for the basis for the transfer, it involves various factors such as the evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the opinions of the supervisory yamen. The authority for transfer lies with the officials, and the basis for reference is the evaluation."
"Every year, the Ministry of Civil Affairs compiles a list of officials whose terms have expired, and marks their evaluation results over the years. After review by the cabinet and the Supervisory Yamen, it is reported to the officials for adjustment."
"The basic principle is that there are tops and bottoms, there are incomings and outgoings. What does it mean? Those who have relevant punishment records in the supervisory yamen and have poor evaluations by the Ministry of Personnel will have their dispatches reduced. For example, if someone is transferred from Shangzhou to Xiazhou, for example, a person will be transferred from Shangzhou to Xiazhou.
The chief officer of the state is transferred to the position of auxiliary officer."
"Those who are average in the evaluation, and there are no other accidents in the area under their jurisdiction, or there are famines but not major disasters, etc., in principle, they are average."
"Those who are excellent in the evaluation, and whose industries in their jurisdiction are developing rapidly, and even have innovative industries, etc., will be promoted. Of course, all this is decided by the officials."
This does not entirely belong to the content of official reform, but should belong to the scope of operating mechanisms and processes.
What Fu Bi answered was the preliminary idea given by Zhao Xi after the ministers mentioned it during the discussion on the reform of the official system.
Originally, Zhao Xi was going to let the officials give their opinions, but the princes thought that this point did not need to be too clear, and that they should leave room for the cabinet and the king.
When it comes to term of office, Zhao Xi has no term limit for deliberation and cabinet.
How should I put it? When it comes to discussing affairs, although there is an official or official rank and salary, it is not a permanent position.
The reason why the highest and lowest official salaries for deliberation are determined is to respect the authority for deliberation.
The term of office of a government official is basically determined by the dispatch of officials. For example, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture is basically determined to be a government official or a high-ranking government official.
However, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture has a term of office. If the supervision regulations are violated during the term of office, or the evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is poor, then the transfer after the expiration of the term will definitely be transferred to the chief magistrate of Xiazhou Prefecture, and the ranking of government affairs will definitely be lower.
You may even lose your seat in political affairs.
At this time, he no longer enjoys the official salary and salary for discussing political affairs.
Of course, if you are promoted after your term of office expires, you will naturally no longer enjoy the official salary of the government, but the official salary of the cabinet.
In Zhao Xi's opinion, one thing about the official system of the dynasty is the most praiseworthy, that is, low-level positions are used by high officials and high-level positions are used by low people. And this reform of the official system has been completely inherited.
This is also one of the factors that Zhao Xi considers when considering official salary, dispatch salary, and determining the standard of political salary.
Taking Cai Que and Lu Huiqing as examples, in terms of official rank and salary, Cai Que's official rank and salary were lower than Lu Huiqing's.
In terms of salary, Cai Que and Lu Huiqing were basically the same. This resulted in Cai Que actually receiving less money and food than Lu Huiqing.
However, in terms of the overall functions of the imperial court, Cai Que, as deputy chief inspector and chief editor of internal affairs, was no less important than Lu Huiqing, the chief official of Shiyi Temple.
When the official salary is determined by the government, the actual money and food of the two will be equalized.
Of course, this is not absolute fairness, but fairness in a relative sense. This depends not only on whether you have a political seat, but also on your own official rank.
For example, Lu Jiawen was an official of Enyin, similar to Li Jie of Gongfang City, and had more seniority than Li Jie.
Under the new official system, Lu Jiawen's official rank and salary were re-determined and would be higher than Li Jie's. However, as the auxiliary official of Gongfang City, Li Jie was certain to have a political seat, while Lu Jiawen was not sure.
There are differences in political seats. Li Jie's salary in total is much higher than that of Lu Jiawen, but it cannot be compared with Lu Huiqing and Cai Que.
In a sense, the political seat is more important than the dispatch. Of course, the dispatch itself is the basis of the political seat.