Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 743

When talking about the administration of officials, everyone looked at Cui Tao.

As a Hanlin scholar in charge of the Ministry of Officials, Cui Tao is also known as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Even because of the incompetence of the official official minister, the world knows Cui Tao's influence, and people in foreign dynasties call him a heavenly official.

Li Tan said that he wanted to rectify the administration of officials, so Cui Tao naturally wanted to speak.

Cui Tao said: "Your Highness, the problem of government officials is mainly greed, laziness and violence."

Li Tan nodded. Corruption is naturally a corrupt official, laziness is a lazy government, and violence is a cruel official.

This is the biggest problem faced by politicians since ancient times, nothing less than these three problems.

Seeing that Cui Tao was thinking, Li Tan asked: "Then what do you think is the biggest problem?"

Cui Tao cupped his hands and said, "I thought it was lazy."

This result was beyond Li Tan's surprise. Since ancient times, politicians and corruption should be curbed. Isn't this the most important thing?Cui Tao even said that lazy administration is the biggest problem of government officials.

I only heard Cui Tao say: "Why do the people support the court and the government? In fact, what the court and the government provide is one thing, and that is order."

"The imperial court has a decree that murder pays with life, so the common people will not kill each other, and only then can the order of farming life be provided."

"This is order, that is, a rule, so that the old, the weak, the sick, and the disabled can survive, women and children can live safely, and the weak can get a share from the strong."

Li Tan nodded Tang Lu Sensen. It is precisely because of the existence of Tang Law that the weak and weak people have room to live.

Cui Tao continued: "But order is like light. If the light of the court does not come in, then other lights come in."

"Local officials are lazy, and the power will be divided among squires, local ruffians, village tyrants, and businessmen. If the court officials are lazy, the power will be left behind, and the local towns will be separated and monopolized."

"That's why I think that although greed and violence are harmful, they are nothing compared to laziness."

In this way, Li Tan understands what Cui Tao means, and the harm of lazy administration is indeed huge.

"What do you think, how to put an end to lazy politics?"

Cui Tao came up with another surprising conclusion: "Prudent power and fairness."

"Why?"

Cui Tao said: "The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the chaos of the world is for profit. The prime ministers of the Zhengshitang dare not say that they have absolutely no selfish intentions, let alone the officials and officials at the grassroots level."

Li Tan also nodded, people have selfishness, if selfishness can really be cut off, then the world will be peaceful.

Even today's players have selfishness and circles, which are unavoidable problems for politicians.

How to suppress the selfishness of officials, the Qin Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty used the same method, intimidated all officials with severe punishments, and used harsh systems to manage officials.

Cui Tao said: "Don't talk about selfishness, being an official is also a labor-intensive thing, and you can't farm and breed. If the salary of the imperial court can't feed the official's family, then the official has to think of other ways."

Li Tan thought of the miserable situation of low-level officials in Chang'an when there was a money shortage in Chang'an. This is also the reason why he was able to win the hearts of all officials after he pacified the food price in Chang'an.

However, Li Tan asked: "You mean high salary to support honesty?"

Everyone also looked at Cui Tao. The topic of high salary and honesty is also one-sided in the forum, and almost everyone is against it.

The reason is also very simple. The dynasty with the highest treatment of officials in history-Da Counselor, is the softest dynasty in history.

In the Song Dynasty, Hou raised scholar-bureaucrats, and the final ones were a bunch of ministers for all to see, so Cui Tao actually proposed a high salary to support honesty in front of the imperial court, which also surprised Li Tan very much.

Cui Tao shook his head and said, "What I'm talking about is not high salaries to maintain honesty, but to make the income of officials and officials equal to their contributions."

"It is said that farming is hard, running a factory is hard, and doing business is hard, but being an official is not an easy task. It also takes time and energy. Being a good official can't support yourself and your family. Will anyone be a good official?" ?”

"Even if everyone has high morals and doesn't have enough salary, it's impossible for them to devote themselves to being an official."

Li Tan nodded, raising the salaries of grassroots officials, and bringing some important officials into the official salary system of the imperial court. This is what Zhengshitang has been doing.

After becoming a superior, Li Tan no longer had high expectations for the moral level of officials, but he did not hate them as much as before.

The bureaucrats of the empire are also part of the empire and are contributing to the empire. Suppressing them will not bring prosperity to the people.

Instead, letting them exploit them will make them exploit the people even more crazily.

Cui Tao said: "The meaning of fairness is not only to give officials a fair promotion opportunity, but also to allow talented and virtuous people to be promoted, and to allow ordinary officials who have nothing to do with them to be promoted. Another meaning is fairness. Give officials what they deserve for their contributions.”

Li Tan nodded, he suddenly thought of the world before time travel, where the basic salaries of the provinces and ministries were not so lucrative, and the children from poor families couldn't afford the astonishing housing prices, and they couldn't even afford to rent a house.

These positions have gradually become places where only rich families can let their children go to work, and those children from poor families are screened out through salary and treatment.

Now Chang'an has the same problem. Before the censor's salary was raised, Gu Kuang couldn't even afford to rent a house. In Chang'an, he had to rely on Wang Chengwei and Wei Yingwu for help.

This abnormally low treatment forced the children of poor families to be appointed as officials, or to form cliques, or to be recruited into rich families as sons-in-law, which eventually led to sharp confrontation between the poor and rich families.

Li Tan nodded and said: "Gu knows, let the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households discuss a plan to subsidize grassroots officials."

"Then what does prudence mean?"

Cui Tao said: "Prudent power means that officials at every level must limit their power and their impulse to use power, instead of using power unrestrainedly."

"When I was in Lingzhou, there were state officials who liked to intervene in the county's personnel arrangements, and even the imperial court directly intervened in county affairs."

Li Tan asked suspiciously: "Is this not good?"

"Of course it's not good. The yamen in Lingzhou meddle in the affairs of the county. All the affairs of the officials in the county are entrusted to the prefecture, and then the prefecture suppresses them to the county."

"There are vacancies in the county, and all officials come to the prefecture to manage. Some state governors directly intervene in arranging county officials and encroaching on county power."

Li Tan asked suspiciously: "What does this have to do with lazy politics?"

"Your Highness, if you are a county magistrate, your subordinates cannot be promoted or dismissed by the county magistrate, and the state will intervene in their rewards and punishments. What else can you do to order the county?"

"If you were a governor of the prefecture, would you know everything about the specific affairs of so many counties in the prefecture? And would you know whether a small official in the county under your rule is a virtuous or ignorant?"

"If the top seizes power from the bottom, the bottom will not be able to do anything, and the only option is to lie flat."

"Assuming power from above, everything has to be managed, and everything can't be managed well. It seems that diligent government is actually nepotism, and it is nothing but lazy government."

"When the grassroots are lazy, the court's decrees cannot reach the county, and the food collection and military conscription cannot be mobilized. That is the time for the country to perish."

(End of this chapter)