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Xu Han said: "Naturally, it will be filled according to the original number of people."

"I don't think it is necessary to fill in the original number of people." Zhao Ding said, "I have traveled to Huaixi the year before last and last year, and the number of officials is redundant. For example, there are five officers in the army in Shouzhou."

"The last time I encountered a civil fight lawsuit in Shouzhou, the lawsuit was brought to the government, but no one dealt with it for a month."

"It's all because there are too many soldiers and officials in the army, and they push each other, and in the end, no one does things."

Zhao Ding spoke carefully.

What he said was the norm in the Song Dynasty, and this is how the famous redundant officials came.

Because there are too many officials in the Song Dynasty, many officials no matter whether they are talented or not, since they are officials, they will be arranged. They can't all be idle in the capital, right?

Even in some state capitals, there are several prefectures, and everyone is scrambling to lie down.

This has resulted in a further drop in work efficiency.

Zhao Ning invited them to discuss this matter, and he said: "I think what Zhao Xianggong said is reasonable, and the number of officials should be arranged reasonably. Every state prefecture, magistrate, county magistrate, prefecture six Cao officials, push officials, etc. , county magistrate, and county lieutenant, just set one for each."

Before the Song Dynasty, there were several people in these local official positions, and most of them were in retirement status.

"The governance of the locality lies in the prefect, the prefecture, and the prefecture, and the actions of the prefecture lie in the Six Caos of the prefecture."

The Six Caos of the state capital here correspond to the Six Caos of the Central Committee, that is, the six departments, which are the executive yamen.

For example, Gongcao is responsible for convening and repairing local water conservancy, bridges and so on.

"In addition, an auditor will be added to each yamen, and an audit court will be added to the political affairs hall to manage all audits."

The Song Dynasty originally had an audit office, and the Gouyuan, the Dumokan Division, the Ma Bujun Special Gou Division, and the Duquanyou Division all had auditing functions.

But there are too many departments, and the auditing of finances is intertwined and chaotic.

Later, when the Southern Song Dynasty was established, it was directly renamed the Audit Department, and the Audit Department was unified.

This time Huaixi's tax corruption and financial corruption actually reflected the collapse of the audit in the Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, do you want to add audits to all roads?"

"Now Jingji Road and Huaixi are added, and the rest of the roads are temporarily undecided."

The rest of the officials themselves are bloated enough. If the audit is thrown away, the audit will soon be infected and stop working.

"By the way, Huaixi Road needs to reduce the number of officials, and also add supervisory officials. These supervisory officials will all be selected from the new government school."

"I remember that some officials in the capital chose the best to enter the new government school to study, and I selected them from among them."

Since Huaixi is going to be rectified, in addition to cleaning up, reorganizing the official structure is indispensable.

While destroying, we must also build.

Chapter 271 Huaixi rebelled? (Second more)

The role of the new official school, that is, the new official school, was revealed at this time.

The purpose of official reform is also revealed.

Officials had no status and identity in the Song Dynasty, and were often discriminated against by officials.

However, it is the officials who actually execute and handle affairs. Only by giving officials a sense of belonging and controlling them can the multi-level control be strengthened.

As for enhancing the sense of belonging, we can't just shout slogans every day, but also give practical things.

It is the best practical action to promote a group of officials to become supervisors.

At any rate, the town supervisor is an official official of the imperial court.

Zhao Guanjia said so, and everyone thought it was feasible.

Zhao Ning added: "I asked Wang Zongyi to register as a businessman in Tokyo for the record. The business tax in Tokyo last year was significantly regulated, which shows that this is effective."

Zhao Ding said: "The merchants registered in Taifu Temple have achieved immediate results. Not only is the business tax collected better, but even the dispatch of merchants is much more convenient."

Several others agreed.

Zhao Ning changed his style of painting: "In the former Tang Dynasty, Jiedu envoys were in charge of one side. In our dynasty, Jiedu envoys have already been given false titles. There are transshipment divisions, promotional divisions, and criminal and prison divisions in each road. If there is a war In the border area, there will also be a pacification economic strategy department."

The Zaizhi were puzzled, what happened to Zhao Guan's family?

The local four divisions in the Song Dynasty were equivalent to the highest yamen at the road level.

For example, the transshipment department is responsible for wealth income and water transportation along the way.

There were not so many industries in ancient times, and due to limited productivity, the imperial court would not interfere too much with the people, let alone a lot of economic support.

The so-called business company registration, management, industry division, etc., did not exist in ancient times.

Since there is no, the management of the place will be very easy.

What is the most important thing in that place?

First, maintaining stability, as long as there is no turmoil.

[-]. Taxation.

These two points are the most important.

Therefore, the four divisions of the Great Song Dynasty were actually configured around these two points.

The Transshipment Department is responsible for taxation, and the Changping Department is the government office for food reserves, which is the government office for mobilizing food from various places at any time, and it is also for maintaining stability.

Not to mention the criminal and prison secretary who is in charge of the judiciary.

However, the highest yamen in charge of administrative management along the way has not been clearly defined.

Theoretically speaking, the transshipment envoy is also responsible, but the biggest responsibility of the transshipment envoy is tax collection and water transportation.

In other words, the Song Dynasty did not have a real governor.

This is not effective for the central court to manage the place strongly.

Of course, the Sisi yamen in the Song Dynasty actually dismantled the power of the Jiedushi in the Tang Dynasty to prevent the local government from getting too big.

However, the top executive of the executive function failed to deal with it clearly.

What's wrong with Zhao Ning?

With regard to the registration management of merchants in the New Deal, which yamen in the locality will finally collect the state capitals and connect with the imperial court?

Don't talk about businessman management, just say that Zhao Ning wants to build a road between Tokyo and Jiangling Prefecture, who will coordinate the people's power?

At this time, a "governor" role is needed.

The yamen responsible for collecting taxes cannot always be left to do administrative work.

Zhao Ning continued: "I thought, since Taifu Temple's recording of merchants is effective, it must be implemented. This time, Huaixi is just in the reorganization of officials. I think that Huaixi merchants will also be required to record. What do you think? ?”

"The minister waits for a second opinion."

"But this matter can't be handed over to the Transshipment Department, so I set up a government office in Huaixi that is in charge of civil affairs. It's called the Chief Secretary. After that, the Transshipment Department will focus on tax collection and water transportation. What do you think?"

Everyone looked at me and you, and looked at each other in blank dismay, really a little surprised.

Zhang Shuye said: "Will it increase the redundancy of officials?"

Xu Han said: "It is possible."

You can't just cut off some official posts and add some official posts, right?

What's the difference between that and no cut?

Zhao Ding said: "A compromise can be made. All the yamen that managed the people's livelihood before the Transshipment Department were stripped out. The Transshipment Department only took care of taxation and water transportation. Recommendations from officials, etc., are assigned to the Chief Secretary.”

"It's okay."

Zhao Ning said: "Since everyone thinks it is feasible, let's try it on Jingji Road and Huaixi first, and leave this matter to Zhao Xianggong."

Zhao Ding said: "Yes."

Now Huaixi has a series of rectification plans out, and the rest is to rebuild the team.

This set has only one purpose: to strengthen the imperial court's control over Huaixi, and to create a relatively healthy Yamen team for the subsequent new policies that may be introduced one after another.

Of course, the most urgent thing right now is to track down the previous tax evasion.

Li Chongwen went through all the accounts in Shouzhou. The first thing Li Guang did when he took office was to clean up the accounts, and checked all the past tax and prohibited income.

Before the Huaixi chief envoy came out, all the personnel recommendations of state government officials came from Li Guang.

Time passed quickly, and on March 28, the rest of the officials involved were also arrested and taken to the capital. These officials arrived in the capital by water.

A total of 91 officials were interrogated by the Criminal Department working overtime overnight, and the process went quickly.

On March 91, [-] officials were sentenced to death, pushed outside the city and beheaded.

The executioner's arm was numb, and the knife had a gap.

The capital city in March of the fourth year of Jingkang was blood red.

When Weng Yanguo, who was still in prison, heard about it, he was stunned.

In fact, he has been waiting for Zhao Guan's jokes.

Isn't Zhao Guan's family going to investigate strictly!

He just waited for Zhao Guan's family to find out that there were problems with all the officials in Huaixi, and see how Zhao Guan's family ended up.

He thought that Zhao Ning must not dare to go to war.

But Zhao Ning just moved, killing heads rolling.

On the evening of the [-]th, Weng Yanguo was also pushed outside the city, stabbed down, and his head fell to the ground.

In this major case that shocked the government and the public, a total of 120 seven officials were killed, and dozens of officials were found murdered and beheaded at the waiting place in Huaixi.

And tens of thousands of people were affected.

In the past, they monopolized local businesses, annexed fertile land, and used their power to oppress the people.

Now, some of them have their property confiscated and sent to border guards.

The news of the Huaixi case spread like a hurricane, causing great shock.

This is a huge local damage to the conservatives.

The Huaixi case also made the struggle in the court more intense.

Conservatives believe that the New Deal faction killed so many people by unscrupulous means, while the New Deal believe that the conservative faction forced Wang Jing, the governor of Luzhou, to death in order to resist the imperial court's audit.

What's more, the conservatives think it's even more excessive. Li Guang was sent as a transit envoy, and the new officials recommended were basically New Dealers.

The contradiction between the two sides has undoubtedly entered a new situation.

On the evening of March [-]th, just as Weng Yanguo's head fell to the ground, the latest news came from Huaixi: Huaixi rebelled!

Chapter 272 Recalling Han Shizhong ([-]rd update)

Huaixi Haozhou, the sky is not yet dark.

Zhu Changgui led people out of the Haozhou yamen.

"Pass down the order, and now every household in the city will pay half of the food, and if they don't pay, they will be killed on the spot!"

"Yes!"

As soon as he gave an order, his subordinates immediately split up and started to act.

Zhu Changgui was the bully who killed the household officials in Luzhou.

When the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice went to arrest him, Zhu Changgui knew that the matter had been exposed, so he ran to Haozhou to find his cousin Wang Qing.

This Wang Qing also evaded taxes, and even forcibly occupied other people's fields. He had ghosts in his heart, and was frightened by Zhu Changgui's words.

After being frightened, Zhu Changgui came back to his senses and began to encourage him to rebel.

Anyway, it's a capital offense, so rebel!

The process of this rebellion is also very simple. Haozhou itself has no military strength, and because the magistrate of Haozhou was arrested as the capital, the yamen is easily captured because of its loose state.

Those big households in the Song Dynasty themselves had a lot of thugs, and they also had contacts with local ruffians. Zhu Changgui and Wang Qing raised their arms, and hundreds of people conquered the Yamen.

Then Wang Qing visited again.

Many big landlords in the area had unclean hands. They were afraid that the court would find out, so they followed Wang Qing in a daze.

The crowd captured Haozhou within a few days, and then recruited refugees and bandits with food, gathered a large number of people, and took the opportunity to attack various counties.

When the news reached Shouchun, Cai Mao was so shocked that he couldn't fall asleep all night.