Xuande

Chapter 696
Liu Bei is very clear that after years of hard work, the number of officials in the imperial court who are able and willing to do things has greatly increased, but right now, there are still a lot of guys who have a vegetarian meal in their positions.

As long as this situation does not change, the big man will not be able to truly restore the situation.

And he discovered this as early as in Liangzhou, so he reformed the original accounting system in Liangzhou and implemented a system of regularly and quantitatively eliminating unqualified officials. Depose their official positions and replace them with capable people.

The Shangji system is a good system. It was implemented by Qin and Wei during the Warring States Period, and Qin and Han further innovated the system.

Every year, the prefectures report to the imperial court information on household registration and finance, prison and robbery, clan names, frontier garrison status, geographical administration, persuasion, farming and mulberry, etc. The situation must be updated every year, and then judged by the imperial court Generally, the six methods of moving, descending, transferring, relocating, entering and exiting, and moving and supplementing are used as rewards and punishments.

In essence, this is also a kind of KPI, but there is no specific standard line and danger line. Although there are frequent cases of favoritism and fraud, it still has a strong deterrent effect on the localities as a whole.

It's just that with the gradual decline of imperial power and the decline of the emperor's ability to govern, the deterrent power of the upper plan system is also constantly declining.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the emperor personally accepted the advice of county officials and dealt with it personally, which was extremely deterrent.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Da Situ was in charge, and later, it gradually became the responsibility of Shangshutai Shangshu. The grade of the books on Shangshutai was only six hundred stones, and the deterrent effect on the local area was relatively small. This change also showed the gradual change of the central court. powerless.

When Liu Bei was an intern at Shangshutai, Lu Zhi pointed out that the escalation system gradually became superficial, and the reporting by the county government and the review by the court became more and more formalized, losing the original meaning of the escalation system.

Therefore, after Liu Bei took power in Liangzhou, he designed his own system with reference to the above-mentioned system, and deeply involved himself. He also needed to strengthen audit and supervision, and increase the deterrent effect of this system with faster punishment efficiency.

After a period of operation, the system implemented in Liangzhou repaired some unreasonable details to make the whole system more perfect, and then took root in Liangzhou official circles. It has been operating very well these years.

It is true to say that this is a brand-new management system. The government of Liangzhou can fulfill the tasks he set for Liangzhou, the KPIs he set for Liangzhou, and the expectations for Liangzhou.

This was the feeling he felt after the first batch of the most capable officials were transferred to the land of Sanfu Sanhe in large numbers.

"Since the implementation of the above-mentioned system, there have been too many disadvantages. Officials from all over the country and the imperial court mostly regard it as an errand and ignore it. As a last resort, I carried out reforms in Liangzhou.

After the reform, Liangzhou officials’ enforcement is so strong that I have never seen it in other places. Officials in other places can do less and never do more. In Liangzhou, there is no such problem.

Generally speaking, there is a very bad practice in the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, which is to shirk responsibility. Officials only want to enjoy themselves, not to take responsibility. They only want to be honored, not to be burdened.

In Liangzhou, we implement a different system. At the beginning of the year, we formulate the things that need to be done this year based on the situation of last year. Everyone gathers together and holds a meeting to allocate the things to be done , to achieve these goals throughout the year.

Everyone has their own tasks, everyone has their own responsibilities, and the risks attached to each goal are borne by the executive officials. If there is a problem with the task, not only the specific executor must be held accountable, but also To ask Shangguan why he did not control the risk.

Liangzhou has a government office that specifically performs this duty. It is to supervise officials to complete their tasks. question.

In the past, all officials were best at shirking responsibility. They didn't want to solve the problem, but thought about how to put their responsibilities away, for fear of losing any power, but they didn't learn any lessons afterwards. They just wanted to further practice and shirk The ability to take responsibility.

Now, what I want to tell you is that this era has passed. From now on, the Luoyang court will also implement Liangzhou’s new policy, and all the things to be done must be assigned in detail. take responsibility! "

Liu Bei took a picture of the case in front of him: "From now on, when something happens, the imperial court will not only hold the lower officials accountable, but even the chief responsible for the matter will not be able to escape! Don't expect to find someone to take the blame. It can solve the problem!"

At the State Affairs Conference of the Four Auxiliary Ministers, Liu Bei did not want to continue to toss about any specific administrative affairs, nor did he continue to open up any new implementation projects, but not tossing about state affairs does not mean that he will not toss about officials.

For officials, he will not stop tossing for a moment.

He announced that because of the actual situation of the Han Dynasty and traffic problems, the local government affairs distribution meeting in Liangzhou could be held once a year. As far as the whole world is concerned, it was decided to hold it once every three years.

Every time a national government affairs meeting is held, the governors of the states, the sheriffs of the counties, the prime ministers, and the core members of the ruling team around them will come to attend the meeting. The place where the meeting is held is the Jiade Hall of the Luoyang City Imperial Palace.

The specific content of the meeting is to discuss the actual development goals that each locality needs to achieve in the next stage based on the actual situation in various parts of the country, such as grain output, such as the number of household registrations, such as the number of collective farms and other very intuitive data.

Governments from all over the country need to come to Luoyang with the specific data of the areas under their jurisdiction. Luoyang will then set a general development goal for these places based on the development indicators of previous years. In the next three years, they will make every effort to develop and sprint towards this goal.

Liu Bei also said that the three-year meeting of the imperial court is to take care of you. It doesn't want you to be too tired from running around, and to give you more time to do things instead of rushing.

However, at the state level, a county-level meeting needs to be held once a year to formulate a one-year plan. .

Next, the government affairs meeting at the county level should be held every quarter.

Every quarter, the prefect of the county and the prime minister of the country will hold a government affairs meeting in the area under their jurisdiction. The county magistrates will report the development of the quarter and the development goals of the next quarter, and inform the county government of the specific situation. Summarized to the state capital.

One link is one link, one link is responsible for another link, and the person in charge of each link must have specific pressure. Without pressure, there will be no motivation. Officials without motivation will only know that they are poor, and once officials are poor, the place will be bad. , is going to be bad.

As far as the state of the Han Empire is seriously underdeveloped, it is not the right way to do it badly, so I would rather let them be stressed and lose their hair than allow them to be bad.

During this process, Liu Bei also stated that he would build a strong supervision department to supervise the administrative level and achievements of officials to ensure that no fraud occurred.

When the New Deal was implemented in Liangzhou, some officials who were unable to keep up tried to use fraudulent behavior to get through the customs, causing losses to the local area, and some very bad things happened.

In the end, these things were exposed by the supervision department of the state capital, they were arrested and the losses were recovered, so supervision is very necessary.

All dynasties have been aware of this point. The supervision of officials is a matter that has been attached great importance to in all dynasties, and Liu Bei was not the first to do so.

Taking the Han Empire as an example, the position of governor of the state was originally a supervisory official, who supervised the prefects and prime ministers of local counties.

In the center, the captain of Sili is in charge of supervision, and in the local area, the governor of the state is in charge of supervision, and it is specially for the chiefs of the local counties to conduct supervision and processing.

However, with the increase in population and some more practical situations, the governor of the state has been stationed in the local area for longer and longer, and has gradually developed in the direction of administrative officials.

To this day, everyone has generally agreed that the governor of the state is the status of a state administrative official, and that they are not six hundred stones, but two thousand stones.

And they did exist in response to the current situation. It is no longer necessary to forcibly change them back to supervisory officials, so Liu Bei accepted this reality.

He officially confirmed that the governor of the state is the chief administrative officer of a state, with a rank of two thousand stones, and above the prefect of the county. Although he has no power to appoint and remove personnel, in terms of specific affairs, the governor of the state is the superior of the prefect of the county and the prime minister.

So right now, only Captain Sili is still performing the duties of supervisory officials, and the supervisory duties for places outside the Sili area are actually in a state of absence.

And this responsibility, Liu Bei intends to entrust Yushitai.

(End of this chapter)