I am Da Song

Chapter 126 Abolition of Thousands of Redundancies
With the help of Taiwan's advice, Li Gang can be said to be like a fish in water in the political affairs hall.

In just one day, Li Gang issued more than [-] decrees, ordering the Ministry of Households to inspect household registrations, the Ministry of Industry to dredge the river, the Ministry of Officials to appoint additional officials, and the Ministry of War to recruit troops immediately.

Under the command of a powerful brain, the stiff torso of the Song court finally came back into motion.

With such favorable conditions to flex his muscles, of course Li Gang would not be satisfied with only commanding the six departments, and then he abolished several redundant treasuries, especially those treasuries that provided materials for the Military Weapons Supervision. overlapping.So Li Gang sealed off six government treasuries, including workshop material warehouse, Jiaziying, and Dongxijiaowu, and dismissed more than 300 officials.

These are all trivial matters of the imperial court, and having a prime minister deal with them really relieved Zhao Huan a lot.

But where there is peace of mind, there is also where Zhao Huan is worried and tired.

Before sunset, Li Gang officially announced the abolition of the Military Weapons Supervision, the Taipu Temple, and the independence of the Three Military Weapons Works and the Lianghe Ranch.

This was originally on Zhao Huan's schedule, but Zhao Huan planned to do it in one or two years, slowly advance, and appease the scholar-bureaucrats.

Coming from later generations, Zhao Huan still had a special overestimation of the power of scholar-bureaucrats.

But Li Gang didn't care so much.Monarchs and ministers, in the Great Song Dynasty the emperor was the emperor, and the ministers were the ministers.The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

So after reading the previous documents, Li Gang immediately made a decision, and all officials from Taipu Temple and Military Weapons Supervision were abolished.All the officials lost their official positions and waited for the reappointment of officials by the Ministry of Officials.

Left and right election lawsuits sound like two departments, but in fact there are four departments, divided into Shangshu left and right selection and Shilang left and right selection.

Among them, the left-selected divisions are in charge of civil officials, and the right-selected divisions are in charge of military officials.The Shangshu selects the civil and military officials in Beijing from left to right, and the assistant minister selects the local civil and military officials from the prefectures and counties on the left and right.

This also means that Li Gang not only abolished the Beijing officials of these two systems, but also abolished all local officials.

This wave of at least three to 4000 layoffs of officials has thrown off a heavy burden for Da Song.

But all fools know that since it has been abolished, the probability of being reactivated by a lawsuit is slightly equal to zero.Unless it is really amazing talent or honesty.

Those who are officials in these two systems, who dares to say that they are clean?If it is true that they are honest and upright, how weak would the imperial army of Song Dynasty be to that extent?As for being abolished by the court?
Zhao Huan was going to go to Yanfu Palace to participate in the royal family banquet, but when he heard about Li Gang's drastic reforms, he had to find time to ask the Secretary of the Imperial City to summon him.

The Political Affairs Hall was in the forbidden area, and in less than a quarter of an hour Li Gang walked up to Zhao Huan with his head held high.He is naturally proud of his spring breeze. His combination of boxing not only commanded six departments, but also dismissed thousands of officials. It really shocked all the officials in the court and brought his authority to a new height.

Under the command of the Zhengshitang, the Chaotang burst out with unprecedented vitality, and its operating system was lean and efficient.In just one day, dozens of departments were ordered to start promoting the revitalization of the imperial court.

When Zhao Huan saw Li Gang, he said straight to the point: "Isn't it a little too radical for Xianggong to directly dismiss thousands of officials this time?"

Li Gang didn't take it seriously, and asked, "What is radical? I only know that I have a father, but I don't know that I have a body. I know the safety of the world, but I don't know that I have a chronic disease. This reform is beneficial to the Song Dynasty, so I bravely ignore it."

Zhao Huan sighed: "Not every official in this world is like a gentleman, who is the most important thing in the world. I am worried that after these people are dismissed, they will harbor resentment and choose to be enemies of the court."

Zhao Huan dared not ignore Li Zicheng's lesson.

But Li Zicheng doesn't seem to be a scholar-bureaucrat?

Li Gang resolutely said: "If these officials resent the monarch and rebel against the father because of the temporary dismissal, why do the officials believe that they can serve the country loyally? Don't they use the state salary to support the rebellious officials and thieves."

It sounds reasonable.Zhao Huan didn't know how to refute for a while.

Li Gang comforted: "Officials, please be at ease. Since these people choose to corrupt the law in the two systems of horse administration and military weapons, few of them have great ambitions. They have no talent and virtue, and even if they make trouble, they will rarely be supported by the people. And support These thousands of officials waste millions of money every year."

This dose of strong medicine directly convinced Zhao Huan that he wasted millions of fiscal revenue to support these corrupt officials. Zhao Huan really couldn't help it.But if several million guns are used to build an army, the Shenwu Zuo Army can almost prepare all the armaments, firearms, and war horses.

On the left is an invincible left army of martial arts, and on the right are thousands of corrupt officials.

Zhao Huan immediately voted with his feet and chose to agree with Li Gang's approach.Before getting up to leave, Zhao Huan ordered: "Gyeonggi transshipment envoy Zhao Ding suggested that the imperial court pacify Shaanxi. In the past few days, Qing recommended to me a Shaanxi Xuanfu envoy who can make up for the sun. The Great Song Dynasty must be reorganized."

Li Gang accepted the order gladly, and with the official's order, he could justly elect a like-minded envoy to rectify the local situation.This will further enhance the authority of the Zhengshitang.

When Li Gang left, the night was dark and the time for the family banquet had passed, Zhao Huan immediately ordered Cheng Yu to rush to Yanfu Palace.

Wu Ge, the commander of the Imperial City Department in front of the Yanfu Palace, has personally led a large number of soldiers to guard. Three rows of soldiers, each with hundreds of people, are fully armed and lined up in front of the main gate of the palace.

When Zhao Huan approached, Wu Ge immediately went up to greet him, and said: "The official family, the princes and concubines who should arrive have all arrived. The imperial city's relatives and officials are all over the corridors of Yanfu Palace, and the ministers are guarding in front of the palace gate. As long as the official gives an order, the Imperial City Secretary can immediately control the situation."

Obviously, if anyone inside dared to be unfavorable to Zhao Huan, a group of heavily armed Imperial City officials would immediately draw their knives inside and start killing.The story that Song Qinzong was so frightened that he was given wine by Huizong to tears will never happen again.

Zhao Huan waved his hands with a smile, and said, "Don't be so nervous, I'm going to see my parents and brothers, not to enter a dragon's pool or a tiger's lair."

Wu Ge respectfully accepted the order, lowered his head and pushed open the tall gate of Yanfu Palace for Zhao Huan with another official.

The majestic gate, more than two feet high, was pushed open, and Zhao Huan appeared in front of the gate with the flame behind his back, and the noisy atmosphere in the hall was immediately silenced.

Everyone couldn't help getting up nervously, and saluted respectfully: "I pay my respects to the official family, and I wish you all blessings."

It's just that there are a few immature voices in this neat address, which makes Zhao Huan at a loss.

The others are all visiting officials, only they shouted: "Meet Daddy."

Zhao Huan heard the reputation, and it was the son and daughter of Empress Zhu Lian. The male was Zhao Chen, the prince of the Jian Kingdom of the Great Song Dynasty, and the female was Zhao Lin, Princess Roujia.

They are all Zhao Huan's biological children, but Zhao Huan was busy with the war before and didn't have time to meet each other.

Zhao Huan didn't know how those traversers who had transmigrated into Lu Bu felt when they saw Lu Lingqi. At this moment, Zhao Huan just felt that he was really a "big boy"!
Zhao Chen is already ten years old, and Zhao Lin is also nine years old.The height has reached Zhao Huan's chest.

According to Empress Changsun who married Li Shimin at the age of 11, Zhao Huan will be a grandfather in two years.

But Zhao Huan is only 27 years old, and it is really hard to accept this.

On the contrary, Zhao Huan felt a little strange about the empress Zhu Lian who was protecting the two children. There was no way, Jian'an's strength of character was still there today, and Wei Wu's legacy would be passed down forever.

(End of this chapter)