Qiming 1158

Chapter 595 The New Country Doesn't Raise the Wasted People
The provincial reform plan proposed by Su Yonglin is a kind of inheritance and development of the "Xingtai" system of the Han and Wei Dynasties and the "Xingshangshu Province" system of the Jin Dynasty.

During the Han and Wei Dynasties, Shangshutai became the actual decision-making body of the central government. In order to maintain the centralized system and demonstrate the power of the central government, the central government sent a special working group to deal with matters that could not be solved in some places.

This system has a long history, but it was gradually abolished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Due to frequent military operations in Jin Guoshi, this system was brought out again, but the main reason was mostly because of military problems, in order to give the senior officials of Shangshu Province who performed official duties actual military and political power to facilitate his actions and demonstrate the authority of the central government.

At this time, Xingshangshu Province was not a custom, nor a local administrative division, but a government agency.

But Su Yonglin's reform plan is different.

He intends to replace the road and road-level system since the Tang and Song Dynasties in the name of "Xingshangshu Province" in the local area, making it a real first-level administrative division at the local level, rather than roads and other supervision agencies that used to be, later administrative agency.

From the very beginning, he wanted to turn Xingshangshu Province into an exact first-level administrative agency. Xingshangshu Province was mainly responsible for undertaking the decrees of the central Shangshu Province and managing local administration.

Seeing this place, all the ministers were awe-inspiring.

Su Yonglin's explanation for this is still very personal.

"When a country was first established, it was often after wars and turmoil that the chaotic times ended. At this time, the population often dropped sharply, the people of the world were calm, and there were not too many miscellaneous affairs in the local area other than the restoration of production, and the pressure on the central court was not too great.

During this period, it was not too difficult to be directly governed by the imperial court to the second level of prefectures and counties. The Tao of the Tang Dynasty and the road of the Song Dynasty were originally the Office of Supervisors, not the Office of Administrative Offices, but later, they gradually became administrative offices. office.

The reason is very simple. The world has been in peace for a long time, the population has increased greatly, people's minds have changed, all the small and major matters in the local area have increased, and more and more things need to be decided by the court.

In the beginning, this was a strategy of strong and weak branches. The decision was made under the influence of the former Hanzhou shepherd and the former Tang Jiedushi, but later, he had to go back to the old way. In this way, many previous plans, Limitations are a joke. "

Based on this, Su Yonglin believes that instead of going back to the old way when the imperial court is overwhelmed, it is better to widen the road from the beginning, clarify the control, and accumulate administrative experience in first-level administrative divisions, so as to make the future population increase and daily affairs increase. early response.

Regarding Su Yonglin's approach in this regard, the ministers had different ideas.

Some people think that this is a good thing to improve efficiency, and some people think that this will cause local confrontation with the central government, which is not conducive to the traditional strategy of governing the country since the Song Dynasty.

Although the Song system is cumbersome, but the Song system eliminates the possibility of bureaucrats and military generals at the institutional level rebelling against the central government. As for the other ordinary people who rebelled... Wouldn't it be enough to kill them?
But this time no one objected, but someone took the initiative to stand up for it.

Civil Affairs Secretary Yelu Chenghui publicly stood up to support Su Yonglin, believing that Su Yonglin's approach was right, and he firmly supported it.

Yelu Chenghui took the lead, and then Yelu Yuanyi also stood up immediately, expressing his support for Su Yonglin's views.

A few more people stood up right after, as if suddenly realizing that it made sense to do so.

Kong Zheng and Huo Jianbai glanced at Yelu Chenghui at the same time, as if they were dissatisfied with his quick eyesight.

What do you want to do when you express your political position so quickly?
Su Yonglin just smiled and said nothing.

Next, in Su Yonglin's reform plan, he also decided to abolish the administrative plans at the road, army, and supervisor levels, leaving only the state and government plans, and also to abolish the current six-level state system.

The six-level state system is actually not very meaningful, and there is no essential difference between the six-level states of Dudu State, Defense State, Tuanlian State, Jiedu State, Observation State, and Governor State.

The only difference lies in the name and level of the dispatch, and what kind of official position is provided for the military attache and clan.

Of course it's mainly military officers.

With the Song Dynasty's suppression of power and personal insults to military attachés, in order to prevent military attachés from being overly repressed and rebellious, they must use generous salaries to win over military attachés, so that they indulge in the enjoyment of glory and wealth and will not rebel against the imperial court.

Referred to as pigs.

The six-state system is used here.

For example, the Dudu prefecture provides a second-grade Dudu official title for the prince's use. The official name is [envoys holding military governors of a certain state, governor of a certain state] or [a (grand) governor of a certain state and a prefect of a certain state].

In fact, the dispatched names of the governor of a state are [Knowing the affairs of the military government of a certain state] and [passing the affairs of the military government of a certain state].

The planning is rigorous and quite cumbersome. What one person can do, it takes two or three people or even three or four people to do it, and then a state needs to provide three or four stipends, in order to win people over and support court officials.

In this regard, the Song people were more intelligent. Although they suppressed the military attache in terms of power and personality, they gave enough glory and wealth. In contrast, Gaoli did a poor job.

Wang Jun also learned from the Song Dynasty to treat military officers harshly and treat civil servants kindly. In the end, he went too far, causing the military officers to be unable to control their anger. Finally, he launched a mutiny and killed all the civil officials and eunuchs. In the end, Wang Jun himself died, which directly opened the century of Goryeo. Military dictatorship.

And Su Yonglin neither intends to suppress the military attache, nor has the relevant demand, keeping these systems will only increase the number of extra officials who eat rice and increase the financial difficulties——

He just needs to increase the number of legal officials enough, so it is meaningless to keep these boring systems, so he just cut them all out and abolished them all to make room for future clerks.

So he announced that all administrative states would be set as governor states, and all state-level governors would be state governors, with no additional title.

The sixth-class state system was abolished, and all the official titles parasitic on the sixth-class state system were cut off, and none of them remained.

This is naturally a major reform project for the ministers, and the ministers have ties.

But after cutting off the redundant officials of military attachés who eat rice, of course Su Yonglin did not treat the civil servants more tenderly, he wanted to treat them equally.

Military attachés are supported by the sixth-class state system, and civil servants also have related treatment policies that cost a lot.

For example, the phenomenon of "official position does not represent position, only when you are dispatched can you be in power and handle affairs, otherwise it is a mascot who eats rice" This phenomenon is a direct product of this policy.

It’s okay to say that the civil service is more important than the military, but there are also various restrictions on the civilian government. It is obvious that only one official can do one job.

A subordinate who is specially in charge of affairs cannot even find a superior who can directly lead him, and is at a loss in the face of many complicated orders.

This kind of disparity of power and responsibility can only happen in the Song Dynasty.

Now such a situation still exists in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is relatively better in the Jin Kingdom. Although the Song system is adopted, most of them only retain the name and not the actual situation. Even so, there are still many redundant officials.

At that time, Yelu Chenghui had a detailed description with him, describing the administrative difficulties of Jin Guo and some reforms that Wanyanliang made to these difficulties - it should be said that Wanyanliang is still an enterprising spirit. reformer.

It's a pity that I met Su Yonglin, who wanted to kill him.

But now, Su Yonglin decided to inherit some of Wanyan Liang's practices, and what he had to do was to cut off both the name and the reality.

He decided to abolish the distinction between official titles and dispatches since the Jin and Song dynasties, dismissing all the original vacant clerical positions, and also canceling the so-called Zhizhou, Tongju and other dispatching titles.

What official position does what, there are not so many twists and turns and redundant officials.

The prefect is the head of a state's administration, and he is in charge of the state's administrative affairs.

The magistrate or magistrate is the head of a county's administration, and he can do whatever he wants.

Redundancy is one size fits all, and the means of mutual restraint can be achieved by using checks and balances of power, without adding meaningless redundancies.

The new country does not feed the rotten people who eat rice.

(End of this chapter)