Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 363 The Organizational Reform Sweeping the Nation

The Spring Festival in the first year of Xihe was very lively.

Not only the officials in Beijing came to congratulate Chen Yunfu for the new year, but also the chief envoys, inspectors, and commanders of all provinces came to Beijing.

The Military and Political Council will hold an enlarged meeting covering the whole country.

A new title was thus born.

The military and political academy alternates walk.

The first person to receive this title was Yu Yifeng, envoy of Liaodong Economic Strategy, and the other was Hu Sizong, who had just been transferred to Guangdong as the chief envoy.

The so-called back-up appointment means that when one of the 22 members of the Military and Political Council no longer serves, the back-up appointment will be made up.

Everyone knows that the military and political academy will not be dismissed when they walk, and they will basically leave Zhongzhou. Therefore, this policy of queuing up for the top position has a taste of the Kyushu reserve talent echelon.

This time officials from all over the country were summoned to Beijing precisely for the Korean War after the spring of next year.

Of course it is impossible for such a meeting to be held at Chen Yunfu's home, and there is no room for it. Fengtian Hall is the most suitable place.

Amidst the continuous sound of New Year's greetings, Chen Yunfu walked to his seat, raised his hand and pressed down while sitting down.

"Everyone who has worked hard from afar, sit down."

The sound of the bench legs rubbing against the ground was a bit harsh, but fortunately it soon dissipated, and Chen Yunfu took a sip of the tea bowl after the ear sounds cleared up.

"This year, I am assisting the general affairs envoy to issue papers to various provinces, calling you to Beijing to participate in the grand meeting. The main purpose is to ask everyone how the reform of the provincial capitals is going."

Everyone spoke one after another, and the summary results were generally within Chen Yunfu's expectations.

Except for Liaodong, which was not fully managed for a while due to its vast geographical location, the rest of the provinces have been restructured.

Here I want to say that the current Daming is no longer twelve provinces.

To be precise, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Shandong, Liaodong, plus the renamed Beijing and Nanjing, are the two Seventeen provinces in Beijing.

After Liaozhou and Yuezhou are successively established, Liaodong and Yunnan will be drawn out and become two capitals and fifteen provinces.

In the past, the imperial court did not have Gansu and Qinghai, but only the Shaanxi-Ganxi Xingdusi. This Gansu included Gansu and Qinghai, and Qinghai was the place of Meng Qiwei.

Emperor Taizu Gao's policy of preferential treatment of the Mongolian people has been mentioned earlier, and this is how the Meng Qiwei came.

Although Chen Yunfu did not explicitly abolish this policy, he did not continue to implement it. The establishment of Qinghai and Gansu provinces is just a statement.

The imperial court is gradually taking back administrative power in these places.

"very good."

After hearing that all the provinces have handled their errands properly, Chen Yunfu praised with great satisfaction: "Since the restructuring work has been completed one after another, starting from next year, the capitals of all provinces will cancel the organizational system. And the commanders of the provincial capitals held meetings to discuss the establishment and appointment of the new army.

In addition to the capital division, starting next year, the inspection division will also be abolished and fully merged into the provincial chief divisions. "

Abolish both the Commanding Envoy Division and the Examination Envoy Division, and only retain one Chief Envoy Division?
Yu Lun, who was also one of the members of the Military and Political Academy, coughed softly: "Grand Master, if you do this, will the power of the local chief envoy be too powerful?"

"It is a good thing to streamline government agencies and facilitate the dissemination of policies."

Chen Yunfu said: "As long as the separation of the military and the government is guaranteed, and the principle of non-interference affects each other, there will be no bad effects. Except for the abolition of the capital department and the procuratorate department, the central department, temples, divisions, and courts, together with local bureaucrats, will not be affected. The duties and powers of the Political Commissioner will also be streamlined and subdivided, Shi Qi, please come and introduce it to the big guys."

Yang Shiqi, whose name was called, responded, but did not stand up. This is now a habit in the meetings of the Military and Political Academy.

You can just sit down and talk, there is no need to stand up to show your humility.

"Grand Master, fellow workers, according to the instructions of the Grand Master, during this period of time, we discussed the streamlining and subdivision of the functions and powers of the ministries, temples, divisions, courts, and chief ministers.

In the past, a province, even a county, had all kinds of dazzling titles. This time, the streamlining is the same as the original nine-rank and thirteen-level, in order to make it clear at a glance and the government orders to be clear.

Earlier, the central yamen consisted of six ministries, five temples, one courtyard, and one division. In the future, all of them will be changed to ministries.

The Tongzheng Envoy Division will merge with the former Five Armed Forces Governor's Office Tongzheng Envoy Division, merged into the Military Political Yuan, and renamed the Military Political Yuan Office Company.

The Ministry of Household Affairs will be split up, and the Department of Cleaning Officials, which manages Dingkou, household registration, field acres, and disaster relief, will be merged into the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The Ministry of Finance, which was originally responsible for tax collection, treasury expenditure, financial audit, and project liquidation, was merged into the Ministry of Finance.

The Ministry of War is no longer responsible for the distribution of food and salaries and military documents and orders for the army. It will only be responsible for counting the roster of troops and conscription.

The powers of the Ministry of Punishment remain unchanged. It is in charge of the country's crackdown on crimes and the responsibility of guarding the country's criminals in prison for reform through labor. The name will not be changed.

The Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple merged, and will only be responsible for the country's diplomacy, ceremonial exchanges between suzerain and vassal states, etc., and will be renamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The original work of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and national festival ceremonies was handed over to the Military and Political Yuan to run the company.

The Ministry of Officials will also be dismantled, and the original functions of official inspection will be merged with the Metropolitan Procuratorate to form the Ministry of Supervision.

The Ministry of Government Affairs, which was originally responsible for the promotion and appointment of officials, was merged with the Department of Enforcement, the Department of Selection, and the Department of Examination.

In addition, the Imperial Academy and the Hanlin Academy have been merged to form the Central School of Administration. The former Yuqian Division Bingzhan Bureau and the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of Industry merged to form the National Defense Military Industry Construction Institute. In addition to these two schools, there are also the Central Military Academy, the Academy of Industry and Social Sciences, HNA Maritime Academy, provincial, prefectural, and county colleges in each province, and the Ministry of Education in the central government.

The former Dali Temple was changed into the Judgment Department, which is responsible for adjudicating important cases involving officials of the third rank and above, and the death penalty.

The original Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, and Taipu Temple were all cancelled.

In addition, the state added a taxation department to directly lead the taxation departments of the provincial capitals after the restructuring.

In this way, the central yamen will have ten ministries and one company.

Institutions in each province will be restructured in strict accordance with the ownership and responsibilities of the central ministries, and corresponding authorities will be set up.

The central government shall set up ministries, provinces shall set up divisions, governments shall set up bureaus, counties shall set up offices, and townships shall set up commissioners. "

Ministries, divisions, bureaus, institutes, these are all the names of institutional levels in the Ming Dynasty. Even the levels used by later generations have been passed down from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They were not invented and created out of thin air. Therefore, a little Nor is it against the peace.

"After the new simplification and subdivision of powers, each province, prefecture and county will perform its own duties and run its own errands. Everyone will manage their own share, and it is strictly forbidden to intervene."

"In addition, in the future, there will no longer be left and right chief ministers, but only one chief minister and four deputy envoys.

Each prefecture has one magistrate and two prefects, and the titles of co-prefect and general judge are cancelled.

Each county has a county magistrate with no deputy, and the titles of master book and palm book are cancelled. The county magistrates are no longer allowed to assign masters and knife and pen officials. They can choose a secretary from the county government.

After re-demarcating the corresponding powers and organizations, if any problem occurs, the official in charge will be directly responsible. If it is resolved, you can refuse to take over. After refusing to take over, the predecessor cannot be promoted!
In a word, responsibility is related to life, whoever wants to be lazy in government and waste government, don't even think about promotion and transfer for the rest of his life! "

There was silence in the hall, and they could see the horror in each other's eyes.

With such a change, the power center has been decentralized a lot, but the responsibilities have also been increased a lot.

Let you delegate power, but if you do not do well, the responsibility will be tenure, and you will not be able to escape.

(End of this chapter)