Wanli 1592

Chapter 1172
Since February of the second year of Longwu, because of the new five-year political program of the Great Qin Dynasty, many things need to be sorted out, so in order to increase work efficiency, Xiao Ruxun directly turned the Qianqing Palace into the most direct office of the central government.

Xiao Ruxun is 28 years old now, which is the moment when a man's energy is at its peak, but even so, the experience of Qin Shihuang and Ming Taizu told him that although an emperor can control absolute power, he cannot govern the country alone.

After Qin Shihuang swept Liuhe, the population of China was 2000 million. In the 26th year of Hongwu, the population of the whole country was 500 million. Now, the population of Daqin is definitely more than [-] million.

Although Xiao Ruxun has only conducted a census in half and half of Jiangbei, more comprehensive census data will not be available until five years later. Even so, it is not difficult to predict that the total population of this period will exceed [-] million.

The larger the population and the larger the territory, the greater the workload. Xiao Ruxun's workload was about six times that of Qin Shihuang and twice that of Ming Taizu.

For this reason, Xiao Ruxun made every effort to expand the scale of the central government, expanded the central government of Ming Dynasty obtained from Emperor Wanli on a large scale, and absorbed loyal and capable officials from all over the country to work in it, greatly increasing the number of officials and departments of the central government. quantity.

Among them, those who are particularly outstanding in the land reform work and those who are particularly outstanding in the process of marching are focused on and transferred to various key departments, while those who are outstanding in key departments are decisively transferred to the cabinet.

The cabinet under Xiao Ruxun is slightly different from the cabinet of the previous Ming Dynasty. Both the number of officials, the rank of officials, and the responsibilities of officials have greatly increased.

Now there are more than 200 cabinet officials working with different government departments under the cabinet. This is to meet Xiao Ruxun's request for a seamless connection without buck-passing.

Any form of buck-passing and wrangling is not allowed. Each department has a direct and clear contact official. If there is a problem, the contact official will be directly held accountable.

From the local government to the Secretary of General Administration to the cabinet and then to the administrative department, the cabinet has assumed a very important responsibility, and cabinet officials are responsible for contacting and docking all matters, big or small.

Among them, the Secretary of General Administration played a very important role.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, the local memorials were sent to the cabinet by the Secretary of General Administration, and then processed. If the cabinet could not handle it, it would be reported to the emperor. However, with the decline of imperial power and the increase of the power of cabinet ministers, whether the memorials can be sent to the emperor In the hands, it basically depends on what the cabinet ministers want.

With the further expansion of the power of civil servants and the increasingly fierce party struggle, some people even regard the holding of the General Secretary as a very important part of the party struggle.

Because in this way, you can directly intercept some reports that are not good for you, and directly send the reports that are not good for the enemy to the cabinet or the emperor.

They took Da Tianting's authority to sort out the memorials of the Tongzheng Secretary as a weight in the party struggle.

Regardless of the interests of the country, when disasters occur in the local area and the people are desperate for rescue, they are discussing how to use disasters to kill political opponents.

In order to avoid this situation, Xiao Ruxun took many measures.

Xiao Ruxun restricted the powers of the Secretary of General Administration. Once a local disaster occurs, no matter whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, no matter how big it is, it will be sent directly to the emperor with an expedited [-] miles from the local area. Such matters will be handled by the emperor himself. Officials are not allowed to handle it.

Among them, Xiao Ruxun ordered the local branch of the Central Investigation Department and the central headquarters to set up a second line. When a disaster occurs, the local branch of the Central Investigation Department should also report to the emperor. .

These are the two routes on the surface, and Xiao Ruxun also arranged a third route in the dark, that is, the black water route.

According to the report from the secret line, Xiao Ruxun knew that there was a lot of conflict between Zhou Yao and Zhang Wu, and the relationship between the two was very bad. opposing emotions.

After that, Xiao Ruxun decided to take advantage of Heishui's dissatisfaction with Heizhen, and give Heishui some power to suppress Heizhen, so that Heishui can supervise the Central Investigation Department in charge of Heizhen.

Hei Zhen is in charge of the Central Investigation Department, with a large number of officials and great power. If such a department has a little disease, it will have very serious consequences.

It is easy to control at the center, and Xiao Ruxun can do it directly, but it is difficult at the local level.

For this reason, Xiao Ruxun decided to use the black water that was also arranged in the same place to conduct reverse supervision on them. This power was secretly granted to Zhang Wu by Xiao Ruxun, and Zhou Yao didn't know about it.

Of course, if Zhou Yao knew about it, and there were any signs that he knew and planned to do something, Xiao Ruxun would not mind sending Zhou Yao to see his relative who died unfortunately.

Even if he knows, he has to pretend not to know. If he is smart enough, he should pretend to be deaf and dumb all his life, and "not know" until he dies. Otherwise, when he "knows", he will die.

Use three lines to ensure Xiao Ruxun's timely grasp of local disasters. For some daily government affairs, Xiao Ruxun also requires local governments to take the initiative to classify when reporting.

What kind of government affairs is it, whether it needs emergency treatment, whether it is water conservancy repair, road repair or dredging of rivers, whether there are bandits or pirates, whether it is repairing the city to strengthen the city defense or repairing the warehouse houses in the city, these must first be classified at the local level.

After being sorted and transported at the local level, they are sent to the Central Department of General Administration, who will do the second selection and delivery by the Department of General Administration.

But among them, when the memorial table is delivered, the local government will stamp the corresponding big seal with the classified seal. will be directly held accountable.

The two big seals are made of copper molds presided over by Xiao Ruxun. The local ones are the local ones, and the central ones are the central ones. The big seals have different patterns and fonts, and the copper molds are stored in the palace and guarded by special personnel. , neither local nor central officials can make trouble from it.

After ensuring the smooth flow of information, Xiao Ruxun also reorganized the cabinet.

The officials in the cabinet are divided into several groups, and the group leader and group members have a certain degree of authority, and some trivial matters are handled by them according to the clear rules and regulations determined by Xiao Ruxun.

After they have finished processing, they will conduct cross-trial. Once there is a report with a disagreement, they will discuss and deal with it again to ensure that mistakes are minimized, and the report that exceeds their authority will be sent directly to the cabinet ministers.

Each cabinet minister has three to five assistant officials to help the cabinet ministers handle relatively large and extensive government affairs, and the cabinet ministers also have clear powers to handle affairs.

The memorials that exceed this authority are sent directly to the emperor, and the emperor Gan Gang decides arbitrarily.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun had to deal with a certain amount of performances by himself every day, and even reported some difficult performances that the cabinet ministers felt could not be handled, so that he could judge what to do. At the end of the day, he was really exhausted.

(End of this chapter)