Song Gexing

Chapter 168 Level Configuration Issues
Dafu Temple was first built in the Northern and Southern Dynasties to distribute the power of the Shaofu in Nanliang. However, the name Dafu has existed since ancient times. It was the great agricultural minister of the Zhou Dynasty.

However, the Dafu Temple set up in Nanliang was not for agricultural use. Instead, it was allocated to the Shaofu with increasing power, and its treasury and cashier functions were taken away. The Shaofu was only responsible for engineering and manufacturing.

The Young Mansion was set up for the royal family, so the same was true for the Great Mansion at this time, and it did not involve the whole world.

It was not until the Sui Dynasty that Dafu Temple was changed to manage the world's food and the country's valuable property, and truly returned to the responsibilities of the great agricultural minister.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the functions of Dafu Temple were usurped by the Ministry of Household Affairs and gradually became a decoration.

The Song Dynasty continued the system of the Tang Dynasty, and with the establishment of the Three Envoys Division, Dafu Temple became a Qingshui Yamen. Rats would come out crying when they entered.

It was not until Yuanfeng's restructuring, that is, after Wang Anshi's political reform, that Dafu Temple regained its old rights and was in charge of the world's food imports and exports.

Now that Zhao Fang proposed that Dafu Temple be responsible for the bank, everyone was naturally happy. If it hadn't been for Ding Du's words, no one would have objected at all.

Fortunately, Zhao Fang was angry, but he still said that the restructuring of the three provinces was opposed, and he had no intention of continuing, so it was approved without any danger.

"Okay, gentlemen, please stop talking. Since the bank belongs to Dafu Temple, the positions in Dafu Temple should be adjusted. Do you have any suggestions?"

Zhao Zhen waved his hands as if he had a headache. The ministers in the palace were too excited. Of course he knew why, so he simply asked them to discuss the issue.

Although all the nine temples in the Song Dynasty are still there, and there were only six temples left in the Ming Dynasty, the nine temples in the Song Dynasty are actually even worse. Except for Zongzheng Temple and Taichang Temple, the rest are basically abandoned.

Even the Dali Temple had no name, and there was no Dali Temple minister. It was not until Yuanfeng was reorganized that the nine temples resumed their original functions.

Dafu Temple now only has one temple minister and one temple minister. There are two big cats and kittens, one from the seventh grade and the other from the eighth grade.

The Song Dynasty was famous for its redundant officials, but in fact there were not more actual officials than in other dynasties. The extra officials were actually officials who only took money and did not work.

Officials in the Song Dynasty were divided into errands, principal officers, casual officials, honorary officers, knights and subordinates. Only errands were the ones who really did things, and the rest of the official positions were paid but did not work.

I have to say that the old Zhao family is kind, and this is one of the reasons. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in order to accommodate a large number of officials from the previous dynasty, such an official system was set up.

In order to allow these former officials to live a decent life, not giving them actual duties was of course out of fear that they would be nostalgic for the emperor, but killing them seemed too cruel to the old Zhao family.

Other dynasties would not do this. Even if they did not kill them, they would not be assigned official positions. Only the capable ones could enter the new dynasty. A large number of other officials were driven home to fend for themselves.

Moreover, when the Song Dynasty unified the Central Plains, there were more than one previous dynasty, which resulted in a large number of officials from various countries who had to be relocated. Zhao and Song Dynasties could not help but merchants. I am afraid it was also for this reason, otherwise they would have no money.

After a cup of wine to release the military power, Zhao Song had to install a large number of generals. In order to stabilize the generals' dissatisfaction, they also had to increase their kindness so that they could live a worry-free life for at least three generations.

In this way, a large number of officials were born, and then Enyin became a chronic disease. As a result, there were more officials from Enyin in the Song Dynasty than those who came from the imperial examination.

The Qingli New Deal of the Renzong Dynasty wanted to change this system, but failed in the end. The Yuanfeng Reform also wanted to change this system, but it still couldn't be done.

Zhao Fang came to this era and changed the Enyin system, but in fact it was only a temporary solution, not the root cause. Enyin still could not be banned, but the number of people was limited.To put it bluntly, there are too many officials in Enyin. If they move too much, it will cause huge changes. No one can bear this result.

"There will be one Shaoqing, one Cheng and one person each. The Shaoqing will be the president, the deputy will be the deputy, the main person will be the co-ordinator, and there will be a number of staff. The remaining branches and sub-branches will be assigned officials who are good at financial management."

Zhao Fang stood up first and suggested that after all, he was the one who made it happen. No one knows how to allocate personnel better than him after all considerations.

The imperial court does not need to open a head office to set up a head office. Dafu Temple only exists as a supervisory institution, but Shaoqing should be appointed as the president, because with the development of banking business, its influence will be great in the future.

If the official position of the head office president is too low, it will obviously be difficult to manage, but it cannot be too high. After all, this is an ancient society, and scholar-bureaucrats are the foundation.

Among the young ministers of various temples, except for the young ministers of Taichang Temple and Zongzheng Temple, who are from the fifth rank, the other seven temples are all sixth-rank officials.

In the Song Dynasty, the sixth rank of officials was the road threshold. Those below the sixth rank were low-level officials, and those above were high-ranking officials. This distinction was because only fifth-rank officials could fulfill their mother's decree.

If you want to subdivide it, there should be middle-level officials. In this way, the fourth rank and above are generally called senior officials, the fifth, sixth and seventh rank are mid-level officials, and the eighth and ninth rank are low-level officials.

The seventh-rank official refers to the Qing Dynasty. The seventh-rank official in the Song Dynasty was actually not small, because the number one scholar and the first rank were only eighth-rank officials.

The top three Jinshi in the Song Dynasty were awarded the eighth rank, the rest of the A rank were awarded the eighth rank, the B rank was the ninth rank, and those who were born with the same Jinshi were awarded the ninth rank, which was much lower than that in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the top three grades were generally the seventh grade, and the rest were the seventh grade. As for the eighth and ninth grades, they were generally given by officials and scholars. This is why the seventh grade sesame official is known.

Another point is that the first rank in the Song Dynasty did not exist. It was only awarded to officials with false duties. The only real first rank was the prince.

Tongpingzhang Zhongshu's disciples and privy envoys, who were called prime ministers, were of the first rank, and were on the same level as the princes and princes of the country, and were involved in political affairs as the second rank.

It can be seen from this that the highest official rank of military ministers is actually higher than that of civil ministers, because the prime minister alone does not belong to the officials of the second government.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no super rank, and the highest title was only the first rank, and non-direct descendants of the royal family were not canonized. Princes basically would not be canonized as princes, and would not be canonized until their brothers of the same generation ascended the throne.

The three Zhao Fang brothers are an exception. This is related to the difficulties of Zhao Zhen's heirs. The biggest reason is that Zhao Zongshi was canonized as a prince, so the prince is naturally one level higher than him.

"How does Your Highness divide the local establishment of the bank? If the head office is the sixth grade, then are the three levels of road, state and county divided into the sixth grade, the seventh grade and the seventh grade? In this case, is the grade too high?"

No one has any objections to the establishment of Dafu Temple. This is the establishment that should have been in place originally. It’s just that Dafu Temple was abandoned before. If it is restarted now, it will naturally have to be established clearly.

But regarding the local establishment, the ministers felt that it was inappropriate. After all, the official magistrate was only a seventh-rank official, and only the magistrates of large counties had a genuine seventh-rank official, while smaller counties only had seventh-rank magistrates.

Of course Zhao Fang has considered this issue, nodded and said: "The name is named after the road, such as the Agricultural Bank of China on Jingxi East Road, the following are the prefecture branch and the county branch. As for the grades, the first grade of the road cannot be from the sixth grade. Otherwise, it would be inappropriate to be on the same level as the vice president of the head office, and he should be demoted one level starting from the seventh grade."

(End of this chapter)