Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1674, manpower shortage

"Your Highness, Mr. Liu~"

"The biggest problem in our entire Shuntian Mansion right now is the shortage of manpower. There are 543 officials of different sizes, including magistrates, judges, clerks, and inspectors, and [-] officials in total, including yamen servants, guards, and arresters. "

Lin Pan began to confide in Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao.

"There are quite a few of you. As far as I know, in a general state capital, the number of officials will not exceed ten, and the number of yamen servants, official messengers, and fast arresters will not exceed a hundred."

"You have a lot of people in Shuntian Mansion."

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he also said immediately.

"Your Highness, Mingjian, because our Shuntian Mansion is in charge of Jingji and under the foot of the emperor, it is set up one level higher than other prefectures. The prefects of other prefectures are all fourth-rank officials, and the ministers are third-rank officials."

"At the same time, there are more staffing and other aspects than other state capitals, and the key is that we are facing too many things in Shuntian Prefecture now."

"I also applied to the imperial court many times for the addition of relevant officials and manpower, and only then did I gradually achieve the current scale."

Lin Pan also quickly replied.

"How many people are still too busy?"

Zhu Houzhao thought for a while and said.

"It's really too busy. Your Highness and Mr. Liu must have seen it. There are a lot of people waiting in line outside the door to file a lawsuit."

"There are millions of people in this capital city, and there are too many things happening every day."

"There are hundreds or thousands of lawsuits every day, including property, land, fights, various homicides, theft, etc. These things alone have made us dizzy and busy."

"In addition, there are street management, sanitation management, population management, factories, workshops, businesses, restaurants, etc. There are too many things. , the more various things there will be.”

Lin Pan sighed and began to talk about his situation in detail.

Not to mention anything else, the entire Shuntian Mansion is already busy with public security, trial of cases, and lawsuits. There is no time, energy, etc. to manage various other things.

",,, we are very short of manpower."

"Because there are not enough manpower on the police side, we can only investigate our own major homicide cases. We have no time to pay attention to petty theft and the like. This has also led to the rampant petty theft in the capital. "

"Liu Gong, if possible, we in Shuntian Mansion would like to add more than a dozen officials and about 300 government officials and arresters, so that we can greatly reduce our work pressure."

It was rare for Liu Jin to come, so Lin Pan had to bite the bullet and apply again to Liu Jin for more manpower.

This is the nth time that he has applied to the higher authorities to increase the number of officials and manpower. In the past, the higher authorities have approved it several times, which has allowed the manpower of Shuntian Mansion to continue to increase.

However, it is impossible for the above to approve all the time, because there are strict regulations on the establishment of state government offices. Wait, these are strictly regulated, and it is impossible for you to increase or decrease casually.

"From my point of view, you may indeed be short of manpower, but more importantly, you are not clear about the settings of responsibilities, courts, prisons, etc., and have not made detailed divisions, delineated powers and responsibilities, and assigned areas, etc. .”

Liu Jin looked at Lin Pan, and then looked at the Shuntian government office in front of him. This Shuntian government office occupies a large area, and it looks very crowded when all the halls, prisons, photo mills, experiences, etc. are gathered together. Yes, there are a large number of officials working in every room here, which seems very crowded.

Obviously, it has been unable to keep up with the pace of development of the capital if it has been using the previous settings.

In the past, the capital city was as big as the inner city, that is, there were so many neighborhoods and so on. More than half of the place was still occupied by the imperial city, and the population was only about one million.

Naturally, they can live a leisurely life with ease and have nothing to do.

But now, the scale of the capital city has already broken through the inner city, and the four directions are developing rapidly. The scale is getting bigger and bigger, and the population is already several million.

Millions of people come from all corners of the country, and the population flow is even greater, and because the household registration restrictions have been completely cancelled, and the population can circulate freely, this has also brought many problems, the most serious of which is various cases occur frequently.

It has been like this since ancient times, where there are many people, there are many things, all kinds of things.

In ancient and modern China and abroad, with the rapid development of a city, the issue of public security is definitely a headache for everyone.

The capital is better here, under the feet of the Son of Heaven, the majesty is extremely majestic, and in the past few years, there have been several severe crackdowns against gangsters and evils, which have dealt a heavy blow to the evil forces in big cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Songhu, etc. Gang forces and so on, otherwise there will be more chaos.

It is obviously more and more difficult to adapt to the needs of urban development by continuing to use the old system.

The previous system was used to manage hundreds of thousands of people, and it was still based on the small-scale peasant economy. However, the current capital city is a large city with a large population of several million. That set is simply difficult to meet the current needs.

"I also ask Mr. Liu to give me some advice."

When Lin Pan heard this, he became anxious immediately.

This is to say that I am not doing enough, I can't do it. This Liu Jin is a cabinet minister and a celebrity around the emperor. If he says you can't do it, you really can't do it. This official may have done it.

What's more, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was the one who came here this time. He is the heir apparent of Daming. In front of him, it is natural to show a good performance, but now he is told not to do it. How can he mess around in the future?

"First of all, the scale of the capital city has already expanded many times, with development in four directions, east, west, north, south, have you set up government offices in these new urban areas?"

"Secondly, various cases occur frequently in the capital. Why didn't you take out the powers of the prison and set up a yamen similar to the county government to take charge of the cases in each area. You don't have one, and you are also afraid of dividing the power in your hands. go out?"

Liu Jin looked at Lin Pan for a while and said.

"This~"

When Lin Pan and others heard this, they immediately had nothing to say. In fact, the current government offices still have the style of an adjutant. They don’t have any awareness of serving the people. It's just that there are so many things that they are too busy at all, and they don't have time to think about how to really manage the entire Shuntian Mansion well.

PS: The weather is hot and cold, everyone should keep warm, my family has a cold and runny nose, it's annoying!

(End of this chapter)